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Kaiser hospital fined $250, 000 for privacy breach in octuplet case
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 04:43:40 +0000 (UTC)
[The interesting information isn't related to the octuplet wench's information being looked at. - jericho] http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-privacy15-2009may15,0,2916906.story Kaiser hospital fined $250,000 for privacy breach in octuplet case The Bellflower facility, where 23 unauthorized workers accessed Nadya Suleman's records, is the first to be monetarily penalized under a new state law. By Charles Ornstein 9:01 PM PDT, May 14, 2009 Reporting from New York -- California health regulators fined Kaiser Permanente's Bellflower hospital $250,000 Thursday for failing to keep employees from snooping in the medical records of Nadya Suleman, the mother who set off a media frenzy after giving birth to octuplets in January. [..] Since the law took effect Jan. 1, hospitals have reported about 300 incidents in which patient records were inappropriately accessed or disclosed. Most of those were inadvertent, such as giving discharge instructions or medication orders to the wrong patients, but some involved prying into patients' records without permission. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Get business, compliance, IT and security staff on the same page with CREDANT Technologies: The Shortcut Guide to Understanding Data Protection from Four Critical Perspectives. The eBook begins with considerations important to executives and business leaders. http://www.credant.com/campaigns/ebook-chpt-one-web.php
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