Who’s Looking at Your Medical Records?
Your medical record is supposed to be confidential. Well, unless you divulge it to other parties for important purposes. Like for insurance claims or something.
I found something from LA Times that’s really disturbing.
A UCLA Medical Center worker who sneaked into the confidential medical records of ’70s TV icon Farrah Fawcett last year also improperly viewed the electronic files of 32 other celebrities, politicians and high-profile patients, including California first lady Maria Shriver, according to interviews with hospital and state officials Sunday.
The breaches expose UCLA to state sanctions and amount to a major embarrassment for one of the nation’s preeminent medical centers. The UCLA employee allegedly looked up information on noncelebrity patients as well, accessing 61 patients’ records without permission in 2006 and 2007, state and hospital officials said.
Well…I just wanna say one thing: thank God I am not a celebrity! ;-)
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