Healthcare workers suspended for viewing Clooney's medical record
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, October 22, 2007
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Twenty-seven employees from Palisades Medical Center were suspended without pay for allegedly looking at George Clooney's medical records after he was in a motorcycle accident. The intrusion is a violation of HIPAA, according to an October 10 article in the New Jersey Journal.
"We have systems in place to audit and protect the records of any patient," said Erice Rojas, the medical center's vice president of external affairs. "Any conduct that violates the trust of our patients and the high standards we set is taken very seriously."
Hospital officials don't think that the records were leaked to the public, but HIPAA still considers the viewing of Clooney's health information to be a breach in privacy, says the New Jersey Journal.
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