New York And Presbyterian Hospital Case Study

The New York and Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) is a leading provider of inpatient, ambulatory, and preventive care services in and around New York City. NYP is one of the nation’s largest health care facility that has over 2 million patient visits, about 15,000 births, and processes over 310,000 emergency room patients every year. This hospital, ranked #1 by U.S. News and World Report, has six campuses, including two that are affiliated with medical schools. NYP has approximately 2,600 beds and employs more than 26,500 staff members, including 6,500 physicians, spread across these six campuses. NYP’s East 68th Street campus is affiliated with Cornell University’s Weill Cornell Medical College (CORNU) and known as NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center. The West 168th Street campus is affiliated with Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons (CU) and known as NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Medical Center. NYP and CU have joined to create and operate one of the world’s top academic medical centers. This hospital provides world-class treatment in almost every medical specialty. Also
As a result of this agreement, both entities have created a shared data network that allows CU Doctors access to patient information systems containing Electronic Patient Health Information (ePHI) across both campuses using a shared firewall. Employees of both entities administer both, the shared network and the shared firewall. In September of 2010, NYP and CU submitted a joint report to The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) revealing the breach of ePHI records. This report stated that ePHI records of 6,800 patrons were disclosed to the internet search engines. This breach was discovered when an individual complained about finding the ePHI record of their deceased partner, who was a former patient at NYP, on the