The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act requires HHS to publish a list of breaches of unsecured protected health information that affect 500 individuals or more.
Here are the 15 protected health information breaches disclosed to the HHS and published on its breach portal, beginning with the most recent:
Entity: MVP Health Care (Schenectady, N.Y.)
Date of breach: April 14
Type of breach: Unauthorized access/Disclosure
Entity: Carson Valley Medical Center (Gardnerville, Nev.)
Date of breach: April 4
Type of breach: Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Entity: University of Oklahoma Medicine/OU Physicians (Oklahoma City)
Date of breach: April 4
Type of breach: Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Entity: Ashland Women's Health (La Grange, Ill.)
Date of breach: April 4
Type of breach: Hacking/IT incident
Entity: Memorial Healthcare (Owosso, Mich.)
Date of breach: April 3
Type of breach: Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Entity: Apex EDI (Orem, Utah)
Date of breach: March 31
Type of breach: Hacking/IT incident
Entity: Skin Cancer Specialists (Marietta, Ga.)
Date of breach: March 31
Type of breach: Hacking/IT incident
Entity: Women's Care of Somerset (Ky.)
Date of breach: March 31
Type of breach: Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Entity: ABCD Pediatrics (San Antonio)
Date of breach: March 26
Type of breach: Hacking/IT incident
Entity: Lane Community College Health Clinic (Eugene, Ore.)
Date of breach: March 25
Type of breach: Hacking/IT incident
Entity: Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis)
Date of breach: March 25
Type of breach: Hacking/IT incident
Entity: WellSpan Health (York, Pa.)
Date of breach: March 23
Type of breach: Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Entity: Specialty Dental Partners of Philadelphia (doing business as Rich Orthodontics)
Date of breach: March 23
Type of breach: Theft
Entity: Hospice of North Central Ohio (Ashland)
Date of breach: March 23
Type of breach: Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Entity: Urology Austin (Texas)
Date of breach: March 22
Type of breach: Hacking/IT incident