Health Data Breach Tracker/MI

Healthcare Provider · Archived

North Ottawa Medical Group

22,000 individuals · submitted June 9, 2016

About this report

North Ottawa Medical Group (NOMG), the covered entity discovered that its business associate (BA), Bizmatics had suffered a breach incident. The servers, which contained protected health information (PHI) were hacked. Bizmatics was aware of the intrusion in late 2015. Bizmatics informed NOMG that there was no evidence that NOMG’s medical records were affected by the breach. However, at NOMG’s request, Bizmatics submitted a breach report to OCR. NOMG submitted to OCR a copy of its Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with Bizmatics. This case was consolidated into an existing case.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
North Ottawa Medical Group
State
MI
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
22,000
Submission date
June 9, 2016
Breach type
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information
Network Server
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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