Not really a vacation, they were FIRED. Allina hospital in Minneapolis fired 28 employees who “were found to have violated the federal patient privacy rule known as HIPAA” as reported by the StarTribune paper. “Although they were patient-care providers, none of them were caring for the 11 people hospitalized.” This clarifies it was not accidental [...]
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Continue ReadingDoes your office assign a business email to all of your employees? If so, what is your office policy on the use of that email? Sure, you might tell them it is for “official use only”…but what does that mean? And…if you “told” them this vs. having it in a written policy…does it even matter? [...]
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Continue ReadingThis issue pops up at times when famous people enter the hospital. Hospital staff can get a bit excited about the famous visitor…and the pull up some records that they have no business viewing. This happened a number of years back with Madonna. Now, after the high profile shooting that just happened in Arizona, something [...]
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Continue ReadingWhistleblower or Auditor…which is scarier? In the news right now is the release by WikiLeaks of all sorts of classified government documents. How did WikiLeaks get all of this information? It appears an Army Private who was an Intelligence Specialist made copies of this information and is handing it over to WikiLeaks. Why would he [...]
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Continue ReadingThe NY Daily News reports: The country’s top financial watchdogs turned out to be horndogs who spent hours gawking at porn Web sites as the economy teetered on the brink, according to a memo released Thursday night. The shocking findings include Securities and Exchange Commission senior staffers using government computers to browse for booty and [...]
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