MIAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Henry Ford Health System
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Full breach record for Henry Ford Health System →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.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5,590 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Henry Ford Health Systemnorm: henry ford health system
- Domain
- henryford.com
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Henry Ford Health Systemnorm: henry ford health system
- Domain
- henryford.com
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 5,590
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- 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
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.