UCLA is in the process of firing at least 13 hospital employees and disciplining several others, including doctors who are harder to fire. The employees were terminated for simply looking at Britney’s old medical files. Obviously UCLA takes the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) very seriously.
Spears, 26, was involuntary hospitalized at the campus’s psych ward for one week beginning Jan. 31, after her doctor made the request.
But the records reviewed by those who are targeted for dismissal were from previous hospitalizations at UCLA, the Times reports. The dates and purposes of those hospitalizations weren’t known. (Source)
Those of us who work in the health field know that unless we work directly with a particular patient, we have no business peeking into that patient’s old records. We also know that every time we access a hospital network computer, our keystrokes are recorded.
So we log in with someone else’s password. Ha ha, I kid I kid!
“So we log in with someone else’s password. Ha ha, I kid I kid!” You got that right…lol, j/k
But seriously, I am a big privacy advocate, and I think they should take it a step further and publish the names of those who violate this law, by making a public notation on their license. And this should be done (snoopster disclosure) not only for those who snoop into the rich, powerful or celebrity files, but also, for those who violate the privacy for those of us who do not possess this type of status.
How true that it. i just had a in serviced at my new job, who are using electronic medical records about the above same situations. Every time you access a patients chart via computer it will show how many times it was access and who accessed it.
Big brother is always watching. So now i wait until i get home to view http://www.sandrarose.com
lol
As big a deal as HIPPA is these stars information always seems to get out. Anyway, if they can’t fire the doctors, I don’t think anyone should be fired. I would sue somebody if me and a doctor did the same thing and I got fired and he didn’t.
UCLA is full of it. Trust that had it been a Jane or John Doe, those employees would still be working.
obviously UCLA takes the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) very seriously.
AND THEY SHOULD BECAUSE THE LIABILITY CAN BE VERY COSTLY
Obviously UCLA takes the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) very seriously.
As quite they should…HIPAA is a federal law, and UCLA could lose hospital accreditation (necessary to receive goverment $$–medicare and medicaid revenue), as well as the ability to see government patients….which means they could actually cease to function as a hospital.
Looney Britney can sue them for invasion of privacy and WIN!
Regular people can sue and win also, but more than likely Bsoul, John and Jane Doe don’t know about HIPAA (eventhough hospitals must inform people of their rights, before care is received), because they didn’t read all that paperwork they signed when they went to the hospital.
Looney Britney didn’t read all that paperwork either, but I can guarantee you her lawyers did.
Bird said: Anyway, if they can’t fire the doctors, I don’t think anyone should be fired. I would sue somebody if me and a doctor did the same thing and I got fired and he didn’t.
Bird, the doctors are not responsible for the medical record in that manner; as they just document, and leave the record on the floor so the medical records department can retrieve it and store it, after the patient has been discharged….
There are so many hands on a medical records while the patient is checked into the hospital; that’s probably why so many folks’ heads are rolling. After discharge, only the doctor and the medical record department has access to old records…so that’s probably how the doctor is about to get in trouble….it takes a lot more than a medical record for a doctor to be fired, he probably didn’t work directly for UCLA anyway.
these medical records was access electronically by the staff computers. every time some one clicked Britney Spears name it was recorded on how many times her electronic chart was access and by whom. and i am sure the ones who access it, doctors and all who peeped at it had nothing to do with her care.