About 5,000 patients of Palomar Health had personal information including medical diagnoses stolen last month when someone swiped a company laptop and two flash drives from an employees SUV , a company official announced Friday . The inland North County health care system is reaching out to patients affected by the late February theft of the items , spokeswoman Bobette Brown said . Palomar Health runs Palomar Medical Center in Escondido and Pomerado Hospital in Poway . The laptop was encrypted , but the two flash drives were not , Brown said . ;