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jlcrews88
Jun 1, 2010, 01:18 PM
When I worked in a transcription office for a hospital one of my co-workers accessed my medical records. I only became aware of this by going into the audit trail of the reports myself (which I found out later was also against the rules) and I saw the woman's name on several of them. I made administration aware of the issue and I was basically told that I shouldn't have been in the reports either. The person who looked at my confidential medical files got in the same amount of trouble that I did... for looking at MY OWN files. Should more have been done?

JudyKayTee
Jun 1, 2010, 01:29 PM
Apparently not. How long ago was this? You say "worked."

J_9
Jun 1, 2010, 01:37 PM
In my facility you both would have been fired with no questions asked. Consider yourselves lucky.