3 UMC workers fired for records access

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http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/article_4f789a48-1e8c-11e0-929a-001cc4c002e0.html

By Stephanie Innes
Arizona Daily Star 
January 12, 2011 

Three employees at Tucson's University Medical Center have been fired 
for violating patient privacy in connection with accessing confidential 
medical records in the high-profile shooting rampage that killed six 
people and left Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, 
hospital officials said.

All the remaining injured patients from the shootings, including 
Giffords, are at UMC.

"The hospital has terminated three clinical support staff members this 
week for inappropriately accessing confidential electronic medical 
records, in accordance with UMC's zero-tolerance policy onpatient 
privacy violations," says a statement issued by UMC officials this 
morning.

A contracted nurse also was terminated by the nurse's employer, 
officials say, and the families of the affected patients were notified.

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