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HIPAA Survival Guide; annotated with references to applicable
authority. Also includes a User's Guide that helps readers understand the legal
issues.
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Link: Prison for HIPAA Privacy Violator
Huping Zhou, a cardiothoracic surgeon in China before immigrating to the United States, was employed at UCLA in 2003. On Oct. 23, 2003, he received a notice of intent to dismiss him for performance reasons that did not include illegal access of medical records. That evening, he accessed medical records of his superior and co-workers, and during three other periods during the next four weeks accessed UCLA patient records, many of them involving celebrities, a total of 323 times, according to the FBI office in Los Angeles.
In January 2010, he pleaded guilty to four misdemeanor counts of illegally reading private and confidential medical records.
We knew it would happen sooner or later, it would make the headlines... Hope it sends a message to others - HIPAA Privacy is serious business!
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