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 April 22, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- National Imaging Associates, Inc., MD
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Laptop
- Submission date
- April 22, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11509, row:2648)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), National Imaging Associates, reported that an employee of its business associate (BA) impermissibly shared the protected health information (PHI) of 616 individuals with an unauthorized individual. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, diagnoses, lab results, medications, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the BA sanctioned the employee responsible and implemented additional technical safeguards, revised its policies and procedures, and retrained its employees.