Health Data Breach Tracker/WA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

UW Medicine

763 individuals · submitted June 15, 2022

About this report

The covered entity (CE), UW Medicine, reported that its office has been burglarized and a laptop containing the protected health information (PHI) of 763 individuals was stolen. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, diagnoses, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards. Staff were retrained to better protect its PHI.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
UW Medicine
State
WA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
763
Submission date
June 15, 2022
Breach type
Theft
Location of information
Laptop
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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