Breech of ePHI on non-HIPAA secured cloud

OHSU notifies patients of ‘cloud’ health information storage

07/28/13  Portland, Ore.

Oregon Health & Science University is notifying 3,044 patients that their OHSU health information was stored on an Internet-based email and/or document storage service, also known as a “cloud” computing system.

Although the Internet-based service provider (Google Drive, Google Mail) is password-protected and has security measures and policies in place to protect information, it is not an OHSU business associate with a contractual agreement to use or store OHSU patient health information.

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