Val Verde Regional Medical Center Data Breach (2014)

Val Verde Regional Medical Center recently discovered a security breach involving a small number of the facility's overall patient population. On or about Aug. 9, 2015, an independent healthcare provider downloaded unsecured protected health information and emailed it to a personal account without encryption protection. In addition, the independent contractor was not authorized to access some of the protect health information. The e-mails may have contained the following types of protected health information: name, address, phone number, medical record number and visit number.