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 Jan. 24, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Beaumont Health, MI
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Electronic Medical Record
- Submission date
- Jan. 24, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13049, row:4188)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Beaumont Health, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee impermissibly accessed the protected health information (PHI) of 1,182 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, medical records numbers, diagnoses/conditions, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The CE also established a dedicated and confidential toll-free number for all affected individuals and offered complimentary credit monitoring services. Finally, the CE sanctioned the employee and implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its PHI and retrained its staff. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.