Breaches and incidents
Doctor’s Choice Home Care (Houston): EMR vendor WellSky clinical user account compromised, 14,333 affected
Per HIPAA Journal, an unauthorized party used a WellSky clinical user account in the EMR between 5 Jun and 24 Jul 2026 (WellSky identified it on 21 Jul).
- Disclosed
- Verification
- Reported by a reputable outlet, citing the company
What happened
- Per HIPAA Journal, an unauthorized party used a WellSky clinical user account in the EMR between 5 Jun and 24 Jul 2026 (WellSky identified it on 21 Jul); names, addresses, birth dates, SSNs, clinical and insurance data of 14,333 people were exposed. WellSky said its internal systems were unaffected.
- Root cause: compromised clinical user account in a vendor-hosted EMR.
- No attacker named.
- WellSky investigated; provider notification steps not described.