tci Part B Insider - 2014 Issue 2

Physician Notes: This HIPAA Breach Lasted 4 Years

lus: CMS Grants ‘CLIA-Waived’ Status to 9 Lab Tests You know that it’s illegal for your employees to snoop around in patient files when they don’t have a medically necessary reason to be looking—but one health system employee took such an infraction to the extreme. A licensed practical nurse (LPN) at a large medical group in Virginia inappropriately accessed nearly 1,000 patients’ social security numbers and medical histories from their EHRs over a four-year period, the Hampton Roads, Va. Daily Press reported last week. The company discovered the breach during a random audit in...

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