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!
