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 March 23, 2011.
- Organization as reported
- Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unknown
- Location of information as reported
- Electronic Medical Record
- Submission date
- March 23, 2011
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15882, row:7021)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The IT department turned on the switch to a BA HIE without notifying patients of the exchange or obtaining authorization. The interface transmitted the PHI of 654 individuals. The PHI disclosed included patient names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, other identifiers, diagnosis/conditions, medications, lab results, other treatment information and financial information. Following the breach, the CE revised the IT process, created a checklist that included notifying the affected departments and provided additional training to IT and registration employees. \