Health Data Breach Tracker/CA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

American Sleep Medicine

1,787 individuals · submitted April 16, 2015

About this report

The covered entity (CE), American Sleep Medicine of San Diego, California reported a breach of 1,787 individuals’ electronic protected health information (ePHI), as a result of a stolen backup computer hard drive. The hard drive contained names, birthdates, medical histories, physicians' names, and study results. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the CE improved physical safeguards, conducted a new security analysis, revised policies and procedures, and trained its workforce. As a result of OCR’s investigation OCR provided technical assistance regarding the HIPAA Security Rule.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
American Sleep Medicine
State
CA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
1,787
Submission date
April 16, 2015
Breach type
Theft
Location of information
Other
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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