HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of July 2, 2015.
- Organization as reported
- Orlando Health, FL
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Electronic Medical Record
- Submission date
- July 2, 2015
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14764, row:5903)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Orlando Health, discovered during audit on May 27, 2015, that an employee was accessing protected health information (PHI) outside the scope of her employment. The PHI contained the names, dates of birth and clinical records of 3,421 individuals. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media and posted substitute notice. In response to the breach, the CE retraining employees. In addition, the CE offered credit monitoring to the affected individuals. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above. Additionally, the employee involved in the incident was terminated.