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University of Michigan Health Systems Admits Patient Data Stolen

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Some 4,000 University of Michigan Health Systems patients had their medical data compromised last month when hospital equipment was stolen from a vendor's vehicle.

That medication management provider, Mountain View, Calif.-based Omnicell, admits it violated both its own and UMHS hospitals' data storage policies when it left patients' demographics, medication regimes and admissions records on an unsecured device that was stolen from an Omnicell employee's car on Nov. 14.

The stolen data did not contain personal identification such as addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers or financial data, according to The Detroit Free Press.