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wtf: At Least 50 Northwestern Hospital Employees Fired for Accessing Smollett’s Profile, Records
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Privacy of records is a huge thing at my hospital too. Part of my job involves auditing random patients records to make sure all the right paperwork is there, filled out correctly, scanned to the right patient record etc etc. Towards the end of going through a file of what was a very ill person, I come to the check of name, patient number, address etc and realise its a friend and coworker of mine. I freaked the hell out, straight away sent the system generated audit list to my manager, told them what happened, who it was, what I was doing and the records I accessed to be kept on file in case it ever comes up that I was in her record to cover my butt. Our system not only keeps record of what patient record you access, but every single individual item in that record that you viewed.
I'm actually really uncomfortable that I'm privvy to some of her medical information, especially as some of it she has chosen to keep quiet.
I'm actually really uncomfortable that I'm privvy to some of her medical information, especially as some of it she has chosen to keep quiet.
You are not allowed to have phone in the office? Are you supposed to put it in a locker room? Mind tell me what kind of call center and what country. Just curious because I worked for 2 different call centers.
Yeah, there was a locker room, it was meant to be kept there. It was a call centre for a reasonably big chain store and their online store in the UK.
You could always implement a master password that bypasses the restrictions and immediately sends a notification up the chain.
I's true that these people were rightfully fired for misconduct and they have nobody to blame for themselves. But curious employees are an inevitability, and it's easier to prevent them from self-destructing then it is to deal with the fallout when they do.
They should have a "special circumstance" or "vip" tag for some patient and restrict access.
This basically costs the hospital $$ to retrain new hires and basically cost the hospital bill to go up.
Wait, can you access your own chart if you're the patient and an employee?
happens all the time on my unit. Usually from aids who are sitting around gossiping when they should be working. Though it's usually them looking into patients who are being transferred to our floor but once someone hears we're getting a pregnant coke addicted mother in police custody or some such thing, literally everyone starts poking their head into that person's chart and it becomes the talk of the unit.
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Jussie started one hell of a butterfly effect. Some kid can't eat for two days because mama clicked on Jussie and got fired.
My wife when she was still working ICU says her hospital had famous people in the system under aliases. Kinda surprised that isn't standard.
Same, yes I have clearance level to access a lot of information but if I'm questioned during an audit why I accessed a file I better have a valid reason to explain it or I'm gone
Note: each HIPPA violation like this can be a $500k fine. The hospital can get in big trouble for shit like this and licenses can be lost.
Do not fuck with or mishandle patient files.
Do not fuck with or mishandle patient files.