LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Medical Center is seeking to fire 13 employees for allegedly looking at Britney Spears’ medical records when she was admitted to the hospital in January. Six other employees have also been suspended.
UCLA Medical Center requires every employee to sign a document explaining that it is illegal to look at a patient’s medical records if the employee does not need access to the information. On the morning Spears was admitted, the hospital’s chief compliance and privacy officer sent out a reminder E-mail to all employees to not look at unauthorized records.
Despite these precautions, hospital officials discovered 19 employees had reviewed Spears’ personal information. The records were kept electronically in order to see which workers accessed the files.
According to a survey conducted by Computing Technology Industry Alliance in 2006, 23 percent of companies reported that an insider was the perpetrator in reported data breaches.
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