Comments on: Medical breaches rarely make national headlines

By: Erick Libby

Erick Libby — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:25:00 +0000

Keeping electronic records of everything related to patients is a common practice for years now and the information will increase because of the increase in health care demands globally. This means more information that needs protecting. I hope that the IT departments of hospitals and health related services will take handling the information seriously. Otherwise it will be very open to tampering.

By: Erick Libby

Erick Libby — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:25:00 +0000

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By: CaliTraumaNurseD

CaliTraumaNurseD — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:23:18 +0000

As an Emergency Department RN, I experienced working for a high profile medical center in California whose hospital beds are often filled with celebrity patients. Needless to say, this facility uses only Electronic Medical Records and for that reason, HIPPA violations were taken very seriously and were often the main topic of every staff meeting held. I have experienced first hand how easy it may be to simply get called away while charting (which happens very often in the ER setting) and “forget” to log off of the EMR where someone is signed in, displaying an organized listing of every single patient in the department, including their demographics, personal information, medical information, etc., for anyone and everyone who walks by to gain access to. Of course, since this matter was taken very seriously, this did not happen often in my case. Log-ins were tracked by management and they were alerted if any ER personnel gained access to a patient chart whom they were not responsible for the care of, then a meeting was scheduled to question that staff member as to why they were in that particular patient chart and a serious investigation was held. The staff members were all very aware of the consequences of HIPPA violations. We learned that each individual RN or staff member responsible for breaching the privacy of a patients chart would be fined a fee of $250,000 and possibly face jail time, in addition to a much larger fine that the Medical Center would receive. Staff education and frequent in-services need to increase across the board in order to stress the importance of this growing problem in health care.