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UCLA Hospital and Medical Center outlines policies and procedures around patient privacy and confidentiality, specifically regarding celebrities and high-profile individuals. The document discusses HIPAA regulations, ethics codes, computer security incidents, training for access to health information, and administrative controls over access to celebrity medical records. Advanced technology and disciplinary actions will be used to prevent breaches of access and confidentiality of celebrity health information at UCLA Hospital.
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The document discusses patient privacy regulations and consequences for violations. It summarizes a case where 120 UCLA hospital staff inappropriately accessed celebrity medical records between 2004-2006. One nurse was fired and two others warned. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule protects individual health information and applies to health plans, providers, and their business associates. Violations can result in fines up to $1.5 million and imprisonment. Individual staff who violate patient privacy also face warnings, suspension, and firing.
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- 1. UCLA Hospital and Medical Center Celebrities Health Records
- 2. Patient Privacy and Confidentiality • HIPPA • Code of Ethics • UCLA Hospital and Medical Center Computer Information Breach • Official Health Information Training • Administrative Access
- 3. UCLA Hospital and Medical Center • HIPPA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 Community Service • Sets national standards for the security of electronic protected health information; and the confidentiality provisions of the Patient Safety Rule, which protect identifiable information being used to analyze patient safety events and improve patient safety
- 4. UCLA Hospital and Medical Center • Code of Ethics • Accountability • Quality of Care • Patient Privacy and Confidentiality • Ethical Organizational Environment • Community Service • Criminal Charges
- 5. UCLA Hospital and Medical Center • UCLA Hospital and Medical Center Computer Information Breach • unintentional information disclosure • security incident in which sensitive, protected or confidential data is copied, transmitted, viewed, st olen or used by an individual unauthorized to do so • data breach is the intentional or unintentional release of secure information to an untrusted environment including celebrities
- 6. Official Health Information Training • Official Health Information Training • (Celebrities) • Patients personal health information is private • It should only be accessed by persons with permission and direct patient care • Breach of celebrities PHI will also be reported to the state public health officials
- 7. UCLA Hospital and Medical Center • Administrative Access • When celebrities are admitted or checked in to The UCLA Hospital and Medical Center person who have direct contact with those patients will be given access to medical information. It must be signed off by an administrator as well.
- 8. UCLA Hospital and Medical Center • Computer systems are updated to prevent personal information from being threatened. Celebrities and high profile persons information will be treated with high priority. Advanced technological devices will be utilized to detect violations and breaches of access and confidentiality. Disciplinary actions will be enforced upon person found in violation.
- 9. UCLA Hospital and Medical Center References • Fox News. (2008). Report Over 120 UCLA Hospital Staff Saw Celebrity Health Records. Retrieved from http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,398784,00.html • National Ethics Committee of the Veterans Health Administration. (2004). Online Patient-Clinician Messaging: Fundamentals of Ethical Practice. Retrieved from http://www.ethics.va.gov/docs/necrpts/NEC_Report_2004 0701_Online_Clinician-Pt_Messaging.pdf • Website • Web 2.0 tools. (http://www.go2web20.net/)