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 16, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Tower Imaging, LLC, FL
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Laptop
- Submission date
- April 16, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13455, row:4594)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Tower Imaging, the covered entity (CE), discovered on February 19, 2019, that an unencrypted laptop computer was missing from its medical facility. The laptop contained the protected health information (PHI) of 810 individuals and was not recovered. The types of PHI included in the breach were patients’ names, dates of birth, and medical record numbers. The CE sent timely breach notification to HHS, the affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE retrained staff members, updated policies and procedures, reviewed security codes for entering the facility, performed a risk analysis, and adopted a risk management plan. The CE also purchased a new laptop computer with an encrypted hard drive, password protected the computer, and locked the computer to a large rolling cart. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above.