HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal with a submission date of Nov. 4, 2013.
- Organization as reported
- Allina Health, MN
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Electronic Medical Record
- Submission date
- Nov. 4, 2013
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15274, row:6413)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Allina Health, reported that an employee improperly accessed the protected health information (PHI) of 3,807 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, medical conditions, medications prescribed, and lab results. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The CE also took legal action to prevent the employee from disclosing any PHI of the records improperly accessed. Following this breach incident, the CE sanctioned the employee, created a call center to respond to inquiries, and retrained its workforce on the importance of patient privacy and its obligations to protect PHI. Additionally, Allina Health implemented administrative safeguards to better protect its PHI. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above.