Health Data Breach Tracker/WA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Group Health Cooperative

1,015 individuals · submitted October 3, 2013

About this report

The CE sent an erroneous mailing to 1,105 individuals which displayed protected health information (PHI) in the address window of the envelope. The PHI involved in the breach included patients’ names, medical record numbers, diagnoses, and addresses. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the CE reviewed, updated and implemented applicable procedures to correct the causes of this incident. In response to OCR’s investigation, CE provided documentation of the corrective actions taken.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Group Health Cooperative
State
WA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
1,015
Submission date
October 3, 2013
Breach type
Other
Location of information
Paper/Films
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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