Health Data Breach Tracker/MI

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Henry Ford Health System

596 individuals · submitted June 26, 2017

About this report

On May 18, 2017, the Troy, Michigan police informed the covered entity (CE) that possible Henry Ford Health System protected health information (PHI) in paper form was found in a storage unit of a suspected identify thief. The documents were old patient face sheets for 596 individuals that included patients’ demographic and clinical information. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the CE obtained all 596 patients face sheets from the police and implemented an active access monitoring tool on its information system that stores the patient face sheets. OCR obtained documented assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Henry Ford Health System
State
MI
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
596
Submission date
June 26, 2017
Breach type
Theft
Location of information
Paper/Films
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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