Health Data Breach Tracker/WY

Health Plan · Archived

Wyoming Department of Health

2,154 individuals · submitted June 25, 2019

About this report

On May 1, 2019, a Wyoming Department of Health (WDOH) workforce member emailed protected health information to a billing vendor, the intended recipient, without first encrypting the email, per WDOH policy. Upon review of the breach report, OCR determined that the incident did not meet the definition of a breach took no further action.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Wyoming Department of Health
State
WY
Entity type
Health Plan
Individuals affected
2,154
Submission date
June 25, 2019
Breach type
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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