Kaiser hospital fined $250, 000 for privacy breach in octuplet case

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

[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.

[..]
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