FL Hospital cracks down after sale of hijacked patient information
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, August 9, 2004
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An employee at Orlando Regional Hospital copied patient information and attempted to sell that information to a physician referral service in the Orlando area. The hospital has since fired the employee and recommended federal penalties according to HIPAA, reported the Orlando Sentinel August 3.
The now former-employee hijacked the protected information about two months ago and tried to pawn it off to an employee at the agency who promptly alerted the hospital and returned the stolen goods, according to the Sentinel.
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