Sale of celebrity medical records leads to indictment
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, May 5, 2008
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Lawanda Jackson, a former administrative specialist for UCLA Medical Center, has been charged with accessing and selling the medical records of celebrities treated at the medical center and selling them to the media, according to the April 29 Department of Justice Release No. 08-049.
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