NO PRIVACY: HIPPA? What's HIPPA

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I'm so sorry I need to vent.

I work in a smaller hospital only about 300 beds, so everybody knows everybody. So anyway, in the past and especially in the last few months there have been many a co-worker ill, surgical or child-bearing in our hospital. There is no privacy! Everybody gossips about the employee or attempts to find out what's wrong. I am not even at work this week and I got a text message saying so and so is in ICU with DKA, BS-672. And I'm like how do you know all that? You don't work ICU??? I just think this is a violation. If I ever fall out at work, ship me off somewhere else!!!!!! These people are just nosy!!! Same thng happened last month when as co-worker delivered her first child. People were runnin in an out of the room just being bothersome. Hello, this is her first child, leave her be!! This is a violation of HIPPA!:crying2:

Specializes in OR, transplants,GYN oncology.
She saw me out and about after I had my baby and told me she brought up my medical records and read about the delivery and wanted to say how happy she was everything turned out ok (emergency cesarean).

Excuse me? You looked up my medical records??

I sure hope you reported this, and if you didn't, it's not too late. This should not be tolerated.

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Specializes in OR, transplants,GYN oncology.

Our policy is similar - termination even for looking up your own record. This is no joke.

The sad thing is that protecting patients' privacy has always been our ethical responsibility, but it took a huge bureaucratic action to get many to take it seriously....

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I have to say, I believe life was better all the way around when people knew how to mind their own business...and understood the importance of doing so!

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This isn't medical - but it is related to privacy issues. My son lives in So. Cal and it evidently is a big story there and he posted it on his FB.

http://www.ocregister.com/news/family-232098-chp-court.html

steph

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.
This isn't medical - but it is related to privacy issues. My son lives in So. Cal and it evidently is a big story there and he posted it on his FB.

http://www.ocregister.com/news/family-232098-chp-court.html

steph

I have heard of this one. How gut-wrenchingly awful. :crying2: Once something is out in cyber-space, catching it is like trying to capture mercury. Bless that family.

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