Health Data Breach Tracker/NY

Business Associate · Archived

Waiting Room Solutions Limited Liability Limited Partnership

700 individuals · submitted December 23, 2016

About this report

Waiting Room Solutions (WRS), the business associate (BA), found a programming error in its IT system where patients’ billing statements were erroneously emailed to other patients. The breach incident affected 701 patients and the protected health information (PHI) involved included names, medical record numbers, addresses, dates of visits, claims information, and billing and financial information. The business associate provided notice to HHS and to all of the affected individuals. Following the breach, WRS corrected the programming error and added additional quality checks to ensure that an incident like this does not occur in the future. OCR obtained assurances that the covered entity implemented the corrective actions noted above.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Waiting Room Solutions Limited Liability Limited Partnership
State
NY
Entity type
Business Associate
Individuals affected
700
Submission date
December 23, 2016
Breach type
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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