The Oregon Clinic, P.C. (“The Oregon Clinic”)

About this report

On March 9, 2018, the covered entity (CE), The Oregon Clinic, P.C., learned that an unauthorized third party accessed the email account of an employee through a phishing attack, affecting the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 64,487 individuals. The types of ePHI involved in the breach included demographic and clinical information. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media and posted substitute notice on its website. In response to the breach, the CE revised relevant policies and procedures and implemented multifactor authentication for its electronic health record system. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective action steps noted here.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.