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 Aug. 9, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Renown Health, NV
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Loss
- Location of information as reported
- Other Portable Electronic Device
- Submission date
- Aug. 9, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13271, row:4410)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Renown Health, reported that a workforce member misplaced a USB thumb drive which contained the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 27,004 individuals. The ePHI involved in the breach included names, medical record numbers, diagnoses, clinical information, and treatment information. In response to this breach incident, Renown implemented additional technical safeguards to better protect its ePHI.