US Kaiser Permante Bellflower Medical Center 2009 Misuse (Q9377)
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US Kaiser Permante Bellflower Medical Center 2009 Misuse
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A data breach risk event
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January 2009
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Fifteen hospital workers have been fired and another eight disciplined for looking at medical records of octuplet mother Nadya Suleman without permission, hospital officials said. Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center reported the violations of health care privacy laws to the state and has warned employees to keep away from Sulemans records unless they have a medical purpose, hospital spokesman Jim Anderson said Monday. Despite the notoriety of this case, to us this person is a patient who deserves the privacy that all our patients get, Anderson said. Anderson would not elaborate on how the other eight employees were reprimanded, saying only that the punishments were significant. A similar privacy breach at UCLA hospitals led to celebrities medical information getting leaked to tabl (English)
