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PPV: Avoid the ’dirty little secret’ inside healthcare
EHR Connection, September 8, 2008
Curiosity. Malice. Efficiency. Rivalry. To be helpful. To be hurtful. Because they have a brief lapse of judgment. Because they have a plan to steal thousands of identities and sell them on the Internet. The reasons why staff members snoop in patient records are as varied as the employees themselves.
“I’ve sometimes called it the ‘dirty little secret’ inside healthcare because it has been a problem for a very long time,” says Kate Borten, CISSP, CISM, president of The Marblehead Group in Marblehead, MA.
So what can you do? Catching a snoop is like looking for a needle in a haystack. But you’d better try because electronic records tend to be far less secure than paper records.
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