Greetings,
I just posted the latest entry to my blog. This week I discuss, “Protecting Britney’s Data.”
Here’s a teaser for ya:
The UCLAMedicalCenteris in the news for a privacy breach. Again. The victim? Britney Spears. Again. The full story is published in the L.A. Times under the headline “UCLA workers snooped in Spears’ medical records”
In 2005 when she had her first child at UCLA, employees were caught snooping her medical records even though they didn’t have a need to know. In January 31st of this year, Ms. Spears was checked into the psychiatric unit for treatment. And again, employees could not resist using the hospital’s medical records system to snoop on her medical record files.All in all,UCLAMedicalCenter is taking steps to fire 13 employees of the hospital, and suspend 6 others. Six doctors are facing disciplinary actions.
There’s nothing new about a privacy breach at a hospital these days, unfortunately. But this story is interesting because it can be spun as a case of not learning from past incidents. But I wonder if that’s true……
As always, I welcome your feedback either here or at the Visible IT blog.