Health Data Breach Tracker/NE

Business Associate · Archived

Omaha Construction Industry , Privacy Manager Breach

800 individuals · submitted May 21, 2010

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Omaha Construction Industry Health and Welfare Plan, reported that its business associate (BA) suffered a theft of an unencrypted laptop computer that contained the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 800 individuals. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In their mitigation efforts, both the CE and the BA implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect ePHI.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Omaha Construction Industry , Privacy Manager Breach
State
NE
Entity type
Business Associate
Individuals affected
800
Submission date
May 21, 2010
Breach type
Theft
Location of information
Laptop
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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