Health Data Breach Tracker/IL

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Midwest Urological Group

982 individuals · submitted July 30, 2014

About this report

On May 30, 2014, an unencrypted laptop computer was stolen from a company closet. The laptop contained the protected health information (PHI) of approximately 982 individuals, including names and data from medical tests. The covered entity (CE) provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media and also notified police. Following the breach, the CE sanctioned and retrained the employee responsible for securing the computer and implemented new policies and procedures to improve safeguards to PHI. OCR obtained written assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Midwest Urological Group
State
IL
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
982
Submission date
July 30, 2014
Breach type
Theft
Location of information
Laptop
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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