Greg Young

Hospital Workers Snooping.

• According to a report, 15 hospital workers have been fired from a Southern California hospital for taking a peek without authorization at octuplet mom Nadya Suleman’s records. [link]
• UCLA Medical Center will fire more than 13 employees and discipline others for snooping at the confidential medical reports of Britney Spears, who was recently hospitalized in its psychiatric ward. [link]
• As an update on the firing of 16 employees of the Harris County Hospital District, KTRK in Houston reports that the employees were from different facilities: nine from Ben Taub, six from Northwest Community Center and one from Holly Hall. [link]

44 employees gone in 3 cases.  This is encouraging that first it was detected and second that action was taken.  Security education alone doesn’t work, and has to be backed with measures for detection, protection, access, continuity and ‘capital P’ Policy.

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