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 June 9, 2016.
- Organization as reported
- North Ottawa Medical Group, MI
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- June 9, 2016
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14504, row:5643)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
North Ottawa Medical Group (NOMG), the covered entity discovered that its business associate (BA), Bizmatics had suffered a breach incident. The servers, which contained protected health information (PHI) were hacked. Bizmatics was aware of the intrusion in late 2015. Bizmatics informed NOMG that there was no evidence that NOMG’s medical records were affected by the breach. However, at NOMG’s request, Bizmatics submitted a breach report to OCR. NOMG submitted to OCR a copy of its Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with Bizmatics. This case was consolidated into an existing case.