Wednesday, April 1, 2009

15 Employees Fired for Snooping...

...and another eight hospital employees disciplined for improperly accessing Nadya Suleman's files!

A Kaiser Permanente hospital located in a Los Angeles suburb has fired 15 employees and reprimanded eight others for improperly accessing the personal medical records of Nadya Suleman, the California woman who gave birth to octuplets in January.

The unauthorized accessing of Suleman's electronic records at the medical center in Bellflower, Calif., violated a California law designed to safeguard the privacy of health care data, according to Kaiser spokesman Jim Anderson, who said the snooping incidents have been reported to the California Department of Public Health...

An Associated Press story published today quoted Suleman's attorney as saying that she has no plans to sue Kaiser over the data breaches. (yet) (more)