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The Children's Mercy Hospital

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 19, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

5,511

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for The Children's Mercy Hospital →5 incidents on file

Children's Mercy Hospital reported to HHS on 2017-05-19 an unauthorized access/disclosure incident affecting 5,511 individuals. A physician stored protected health information, including names, dates of birth, and medical diagnoses, on a personal website. In response, the hospital updated policies, retrained employees, and sanctioned the physician.

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

May 19, 2017

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Montana State AGMay 19 · first
HHS OCRMay 19 · first · this page

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.