Health Data Breach Tracker/TX

Healthcare Provider · Archived

North Texas Medical Center

3,350 individuals · submitted March 15, 2018

About this report

The covered entity (CE), North Texas Medical Center, inadvertently provided two unredacted e-mails to a member of the public in response to a public information act request that was made under state law. The incident compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 3,368 individuals and included demographic and clinical information. The CE notified HHS, the affected individuals and the media. Following the breach, the CE updated its policies and training to its workforce members to prevent a similar event from occurring in the future. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented these corrective actions.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
North Texas Medical Center
State
TX
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
3,350
Submission date
March 15, 2018
Breach type
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information
Laptop
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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