Jury to determine if HIPAA violation was just cause for firing NJ secretary
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, December 31, 2007
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An appellate court decided on December 21 that a jury will determine if Christ Hospital in Jersey City, NJ wrongly fired secretary Elia Serrano from her job because of a HIPAA violation, according to a December 22 article by the Associated Press (AP), as seen in the New Jersey Courier-Post online.
The hospital fired Serrano for violating the HIPAA privacy rule after she warned a school that one of its students may have been exposed to meningitis. Serrano's lawyer, Mitchell D. Perlmutter, says that federal regulations allow PHI disclosures in the interest of public health. Christ hospital's attorney, Irving L. Hurwitz, maintained that Serrano violated hospital policy by releasing medical information, and that the hospital's policy states that it can fire violators, according to the AP article.
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