Health Data Breach Tracker/PA

Business Associate · Archived

Gair Medical Transcription Services, Inc.

1,085 individuals · submitted December 15, 2010

About this report

Pinnacle Health Systems was notified that a business associate, a medical transcription service, had a server compromised in which reports of Pinnacle patients could be viewed online. The server compromise involved the protected health information of 1085 individuals. The protected health information involved in the breach included names, Medicaid ID numbers, dates of birth, and primary physicians. In response to this incident, the covered entity took steps to enforce the requirements of the Privacy & Security Rules. The covered entity immediately discontinued its relationship with the business associate and engaged another medical transcription service. The covered entity also contracted with forensic consultants to ensure that the cause of the compromise was found that that all traces of breached medical reports were removed from online and inaccessible in the future. \

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Gair Medical Transcription Services, Inc.
State
PA
Entity type
Business Associate
Individuals affected
1,085
Submission date
December 15, 2010
Breach type
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information
Network Server
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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