Most Popular Stories
- CVS Caremark reports lost deals, FTC investigation
- Illegal-immigrant issues may threaten passage of House reform bill
- Pharmacists say PBMs are holding up Tamiflu supply
- Nurses in ICUs get worse sleep, may make more errors
- International study finds U.S. behind in access, quality
- Humana slammed after posting 65 percent increase in third quarter profits
Featured Jobs
-
Pediatrics Job in South Dakota
StaffPointe, LLC - east, SD -
Director of Billing & Collections
Pharma-Cruiting Life Sciences Executive Search - New York, NY -
Pediatrician Job in Oklahoma
StaffPointe, LLC - north, OK -
Orthopedic Surgeon Job in Florida
StaffPointe, LLC - Orlando, FL -
Rheumatology Job in North Dakota
StaffPointe, LLC - northeast, ND
Events
- Security Audits: Is Your Organization Prepared and In Compliance?
Dec.3 at 12 pm CT - IHI's 21st Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care
December 6-9 — Orlando, FL - Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit
1-2 Dec 09 — London
Paid Research Reports
- Pricing and Reimbursement in Key Asia Pacific Markets
- Delivery Mechanisms for Large Molecule Drugs: Successes and failures of leading technologies and key drivers for market success
- The Cardiovascular Market Outlook to 2013: Competitive landscape, global market analysis and pipeline analysis
- Intellectual Property and Outsourcing in China: Minimizing risk whilst maximizing return on investment
- Health Care Equipment & Supplies: Global Industry Guide
- 2009 Trends to Watch: Healthcare Technology
FEATURES >> YouTube | Top acute-care hospitals | Hospital Fires | Top BlackBerry Apps | Commentary
TOPICS >> Stimulus | Health Reform | CMS News | Finance | EMRs | Mobile Healthcare | Hospital Leadership Blog
Free Newsletter
FierceHealthcare is the leading source of healthcare management news for healthcare industry executives. Join 46,000+ healthcare industry insiders who get FierceHealthcare via daily email. Sign up today!
Popular Topics
- Medicare
- health plans
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Insurance
- Electronic Medical Records (EMRs)
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
- Medicaid
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- healthcare system
- prescription drugs
- health reform
- pharmaceutical companies
UCLA snooping report released: More records compromised than previously thought
UCLA keeps having to admit that its medical records snooping problem is worse than it previously appeared. In August, the university medical center admitted that 939 patients had had their records improperly accessed. Now as the state investigation is concluding, they say the grand total was 1,041. The number of workers implicated has also gone up, from 127 to 165.
UCLA says that they have instituted several policies to try to prevent workers from snooping on records of high-profile patients like California first lady Maria Shriver, singer Britney Spears, and actress Farrah Fawcett. These new policies include periodic reviews of employees who have access to patient records, and requiring employees to give a reason why they are accessing records as they do so.
Still, when an institution cares for patients with such prominence, maybe some additional health IT protocols unique to such hospitals become necessary. (Call it the "celeb IT treatment.")
To learn more about this problem:
- Read this Los Angeles Times piece
Related Articles:
More UCLA staffers cited for record snooping
Report: UCLA privacy breaches happen often
UCLA's medical record spying problem worse than thought
Related Stories
- Kaiser fined $250,000 for staff snooping into octuplet mom's records
- CA proposes medical record privacy rules
- UCLA's medical record spying problem worse than thought
- UCLA staffer indicted for sharing patient information
- Report: UCLA privacy breaches happen often
- NM hospital workers fired for posting patient photos online
- More UCLA staffers cited for record snooping
- ALSO NOTED: IOM urges geriatrician pay increase; Kuhn takes over as Medicaid head; and much more...
- SPOTLIGHT: Has HIPAA worked?
- ALSO NOTED: Farrah Fawcett's cancer records illegally reviewed; Women's Hospital in TX to close; and much more...
Comments
Post new comment
Home
| Subscribe | Advertise | Mobile Edition | RSS |
Privacy
| Site Map | List in Marketplace | Supplier MarketplaceTHE FIERCEMARKETS NETWORKFierceFinance | FierceFinanceIT | FierceComplianceIT | FierceHealthcare | FierceHealthFinance | FierceHealthIT | Hospital Impact | FierceMobileHealthcare | FierceCIO | FierceCIO:TechWatch | FierceContentManagement | FierceMobileIT | FierceGovernmentIT | FierceBiotech | FierceBiotech Research | FiercePharma | FierceVaccines | FierceBiotechIT | FiercePharma Manufacturing | FierceIPTV | FierceOnlineVideo | FierceTelecom | FierceVoIP | FierceBroadbandWireless | FierceDeveloper | FierceMobileContent | FierceWireless | FierceWireless:Europe© 2009 FierceMarkets, Inc. All rights reserved. |
![]() |





