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20 Fired in Celebrity PrivacyViolation
By encinoman
Violating patient privacy doesn&;t just happen in Los Angeles, or to people like Farrah Fawcett. Even in Jacksonville, FL, there are celebrities&;and hospital workers anxious to violate their privacy.
Twenty hospital workers &; nurses, admissions workers and patient relations staff &; lost their jobs this week, accused of breaking federal privacy rules by accessing the medical records of the (NFL Jacksonville) Jaguars&; Richard Collier.
Two weeks after Collier &; who was shot 14 times &; was well enough to be discharged from Shands-Jacksonville Medical Center, 20 hospital employees were fired for violating Collier&;s medical privacy.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, (HIPAA) should not be a joke. My medical condition is between my doctors and appropriate supporting personnel and myself&;it&;s not watercooler chatter for the bored and stupid.
While I admit that wheedling records out of hospital personnel is what tabloid reporters, as I used to be, are trained to do, doesn&;t mean that it&;s OK for medical personnel to sell or otherwise discuss a star&;s (or anyone&;s) medical condition.
And this will not stop until doctors are among those fired or otherwise disciplined.
Tags: celebrities, Farrah-Fawcett, HIPPA, Jacksonville, NFL, Privacy, privacy-violation, Richard-Collier, tabloid-journalism
This entry was posted on November 1, 2008 at 3:54 pm and is filed under public-relations-disaster.
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