MICHIGANAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Henry Ford Health System

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 20, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

5,590

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for Henry Ford Health System →10 incidents on file

Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) reported to HHS on 2019-02-20 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 5,590 individuals. An employee inadvertently mailed PHI (names and medication information) to the wrong recipients. Breached information was located in Paper/Films. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and media. Corrective actions included administrative safeguards, staff retraining, and OCR-guided harm mitigation (recipients asked to destroy/return incorrectly received mailings). OCR obtained assurances of compliance.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Feb 20, 2019

Filed

—

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5,590 affectedView incident

Name: Henry Ford Health System
norm: henry ford health system
Domain: henryford.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Henry Ford Health System
norm: henry ford health system
Domain: henryford.com
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5,590nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notifiedOCR provided technical assistance on mitigating harmOCR obtained assurances of corrective action implementation
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and media
Implemented administrative safeguards to prevent mailing errors
Retrained staff
Requested incorrect recipients to destroy or return mailings
Changes made: Administrative safeguards implemented to prevent future mailing errors
Staff retrained on mailing procedures
OCR technical assistance incorporated
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
Filed at: Feb 20, 2019
Raw hash: c6d60f68dbb0797bdbf4226818182bffc7ae0614484f9df086a6a961f120273d

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Reporting entityHenry Ford Health System

Victim entityHenry Ford Health System

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing