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Kaiser fined $250,000 for staff snooping into octuplet mom's records
As if mother of octuplets Nadya Suleman hasn't gotten enough press, now she's in the news again--this time because someone violated her rights. California's health regulators have fined Kaiser... Read more...
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... Read more...
CA proposes medical record privacy rules
The California legislature is considering a new bill that imposes health data privacy protections above and beyond those already required by HIPAA, alarmed by a recent rash of medical record snooping... Read more...
UCLA's medical record spying problem worse than thought
Despite vows that it was getting things in order, UCLA Medical Center still seems to have a problem with protecting the privacy of its medical records. According to a new report from the California... Read more...
More UCLA staffers cited for record snooping
California regulators have identified an additional 14 staffers connected with UCLA Medical Center who improperly viewed celebrity medical records. This brings the total number of current and former... Read more...
UCLA staffer indicted for sharing patient information
In a rare instance of prosecution for medical records disclosure, a former administrative staffer at UCLA Medical Center has been indicted by a federal grand jury, accused of selling celebrity... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: IOM urges geriatrician pay increase; Kuhn takes over as Medicaid head; and much more...
> In an effort to make sure aging baby boomers get appropriate care, the Institute of Medicine is urging payers to support an increase in pay for geriatric specialists. Read more...
Report: UCLA privacy breaches happen often
When a hospital treats celebrities, it's no surprise that employees will be tempted to get a peek at their records--as happened recently when employees improperly looked into records on singer... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Has HIPAA worked?
More than a decade ago, when Congress passed HIPAA, it was seen as a major victory for privacy advocates. Today, however, people have become disenchanted with the law, with few defendants being... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Farrah Fawcett's cancer records illegally reviewed; Women's Hospital in TX to close; and much more...
> Prior to Britney Spears's hospital files being illegally viewed by some members of UCLA's medical staff, Farrah Fawcett suffered the same fate. Records of her cancer treatments at the same... Read more...
