Massive PHI Breach at Children’s Medical Clinics of East Texas
An employee of the Children’s Medical Clinics with a retaliatory agenda to cause damage to the clinic’s reputation, stole and improperly disclosed 16,000 patient records. Notification letters were sent to affected people to inform them that an employee took paper records from the facility and sent screenshots of electronic patient records to a former clinic employee. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) health data breach portal indicates patient names, dates of birth, diagnostic information and treatment information were disclosed.