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 Sept. 3, 2013.
- Organization as reported
- Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest, OR
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Electronic Medical Record
- Submission date
- Sept. 3, 2013
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15330, row:6469)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Over a period of about three and half years, an employee of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest, the covered entity (CE), accessed patient records either without a business need to know or beyond the minimum necessary for her job. The impermissible access by the employee totaled 647 individuals. The type of protected health information involved in the breach included names and treatment information. The CE provided breach notification to HHS and affected individuals. Following the discovery of the breach the CE retrained employees. After an intensive investigation, it terminated the employee and disciplined four others for related misconduct. OCR obtained written assurances that the corrective actions were taken.