Health Data Breach Tracker/PA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center

2,928 individuals · submitted December 28, 2010

About this report

The covered entity's (CE) staff physician emailed the protected health information (PHI) of approximately 2,900 individuals to his home email account while working on an analysis. The PHI included names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, and medication information. Following the breach, the CE sanctioned the physician and implemented a plan to auto-encrypt all PHI sent through email. As a result of OCR's investigation, the CE improved its physical safeguards and retrained employees. \ \

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center
State
PA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
2,928
Submission date
December 28, 2010
Breach type
Theft
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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