Health Data Breach Tracker/CA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

AltaMed Health Services Corporation

6,000 individuals · submitted February 15, 2019

About this report

On December 31, 2018, ShareCare Health Data Services, a business associate (BA), informed the covered entity (CE), AltaMed, that it had experienced a data security incident which affected the protected health information (PHI) of approximately 6,000 of the CE's patients. The breach affected both clinical and demographic electronic PHI including names, addresses, dates of birth, other identifiers, and other treatment information. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, the affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the CE also revised its BA agreement with the BA. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented these corrective action steps.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
AltaMed Health Services Corporation
State
CA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
6,000
Submission date
February 15, 2019
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Network Server
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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