Healthcare Provider · Archived
Tri-State Specialists, LLP
17,050 individuals · submitted October 29, 2020
About this report
The covered entity (CE), Tri-State Specialists, LLP, reported that an employee sent an email containing the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 17,050 individuals to the wrong recipients. The ePHI involved included names and email addresses. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the responsible employee was sanctioned and retrained with other employees to prevent future incidents of this nature. In addition, the CE implemented additional administrative safeguards to better protect its ePHI. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.
Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
- Organization
- Tri-State Specialists, LLP
- State
- IA
- Entity type
- Healthcare Provider
- Individuals affected
- 17,050
- Submission date
- October 29, 2020
- Breach type
- Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information
- Business associate present
- No
- OCR status
- Archived
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