Medical Privacy
« Previous Entries“It Was Just Me Being Nosy,” Claims Snooping Employee in UCLA Medical Privacy Breach
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008The employee at the center of the UCLA Medical Center medical privacy breach scandal, claims nosiness as her motive. That’s somewhat akin to a security guard caught sleeping, saying, “That was just me taking a nap.” Although UCLA would not release her name, the LA Times found her and interviewed her.
The UCLA Medical Center employee […]
More Snooping at UCLA: Farrah Fawcett’s Medical Privacy Breached
Friday, April 4th, 2008Farrah Fawcett’s medical privacy has been breached at UCLA Medical Center. Details of her cancer treatments and speculations about her state of mind that were published in The National Enquirer were derived from the sale of this information, making this case especially egregious and painful for Fawcett. As the […]
UCLA Will Fire Medical Workers for Violating Britney Spears’ Medical Privacy
Saturday, March 15th, 2008While very few others will leave Britney alone, medical professionals must be held to a higher standard. Violating anyone’s medical privacy is unethical as well as against the law.
UCLA Medical Center is taking steps to fire at least 13 employees and has suspended at least six others for snooping in the confidential medical records […]
When Bean Counters Kill: CIGNA Says No to Transplant, Nataline Sarkisyan Dies
Friday, December 21st, 2007A modern horror story. Nataline Sarkisyan died hours after CIGNA reversed its denial of a liver transplant after public protests.
A grieving family is blaming an insurance company for the death Thursday of a 17-year-old leukemia patient, who died hours after the company reversed course and agreed to pay for her to receive a liver transplant.
Nataline […]
Minnesota Law and Five Drops of Blood Raise Privacy Concerns
Sunday, November 11th, 2007A new law in Minnesota may violate privacy.
About 24 hours after a baby is born in Minnesota, a hospital nurse pricks a heel and squeezes five drops of blood.
Three blood spots go straight to a state Department of Health lab in St. Paul. Two spots are sent by courier to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. […]