Health Data Breach Tracker/TX

Healthcare Provider · Archived

The Center For Health Care Services

501 individuals · submitted November 8, 2017

About this report

The Center for Health Care Services, the covered entity (CE), reported that a former workforce member impermissibly disclosed the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 28,434 individuals to an unauthorized third party without authorization. The types of PHI disclosed included patients’ names, dates of birth, social security numbers, laboratory results, and dates of services. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. OCR obtained documented assurances that the CE created new policies, trained workforce members on its new policies, and improved technical safeguards to prevent similar incidents.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
The Center For Health Care Services
State
TX
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
501
Submission date
November 8, 2017
Breach type
Theft
Location of information
Paper/Films
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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