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Kaiser fires 15 workers for snooping in octuplet mom's medical records
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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 01:21:56 -0600 (CST)
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9130827 By Jaikumar Vijayan March 31, 2009 Computerworld A Kaiser Permanente hospital located in a Los Angeles suburb has fired 15 employees and reprimanded eight others for improperly accessing the personal medical records of Nadya Suleman, the California woman who gave birth to octuplets in January. The unauthorized accessing of Suleman's electronic records at the medical center in Bellflower, Calif., violated a California law designed to safeguard the privacy of health care data, according to Kaiser spokesman Jim Anderson, who said the snooping incidents have been reported to the California Department of Public Health. The improper activities were discovered as a result of increased network monitoring procedures that the hospital implemented in anticipation of the huge public interest in Suleman following the birth of the octuplets, Anderson said. "We have known since she came into the hospital that at some point, this would be a fairly widely reported story," he said, adding that Kaiser also conducted extra training before Suleman was admitted to the hospital to remind employees about the importance of keeping patient data confidential. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/
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