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. 20, 2012.
- Organization as reported
- Muskogee Regional Medical Center, OK
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Loss
- Location of information as reported
- Other
- Submission date
- Jan. 20, 2012
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15707, row:6846)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
A binder containing flu test results went missing from the lab of the covered entity (CE), Muskogee Regional Medical Center, on or about December 5, 2011. The binder contained the protected health information (PHI) of approximately 844 individuals, including patients’ names, account numbers, genders, medical record numbers, dates of birth, ages, test dates, and flu test results. Although the CE’s investigation could not confirm that the information had been impermissibly disclosed, it provided breach notification to the potentially affected individuals, HHS and the media. Following discovery of the incident, the CE retrained laboratory workforce members regarding proper handling and disposal procedures for PHI. It also determined to eliminate such paper records and to store future similar records electronically. OCR obtained assurances that the corrective actions listed above were completed.