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]]> http://dailycensored.com/2009/12/06/medical-breaches-rarely-make-national-headlines/comment-page-1/#comment-1097 CaliTraumaNurseD Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:23:18 +0000 http://dailycensored.com/?p=10695#comment-1097 As an Emergency Department RN, I experienced working for a high profile medical center in California whose hospital beds are often filled with celebrity patients. Needless to say, this facility uses only Electronic Medical Records and for that reason, HIPPA violations were taken very seriously and were often the main topic of every staff meeting held. I have experienced first hand how easy it may be to simply get called away while charting (which happens very often in the ER setting) and "forget" to log off of the EMR where someone is signed in, displaying an organized listing of every single patient in the department, including their demographics, personal information, medical information, etc., for anyone and everyone who walks by to gain access to. Of course, since this matter was taken very seriously, this did not happen often in my case. Log-ins were tracked by management and they were alerted if any ER personnel gained access to a patient chart whom they were not responsible for the care of, then a meeting was scheduled to question that staff member as to why they were in that particular patient chart and a serious investigation was held. The staff members were all very aware of the consequences of HIPPA violations. We learned that each individual RN or staff member responsible for breaching the privacy of a patients chart would be fined a fee of $250,000 and possibly face jail time, in addition to a much larger fine that the Medical Center would receive. Staff education and frequent in-services need to increase across the board in order to stress the importance of this growing problem in health care. As an Emergency Department RN, I experienced working for a high profile medical center in California whose hospital beds are often filled with celebrity patients. Needless to say, this facility uses only Electronic Medical Records and for that reason, HIPPA violations were taken very seriously and were often the main topic of every staff meeting held. I have experienced first hand how easy it may be to simply get called away while charting (which happens very often in the ER setting) and “forget” to log off of the EMR where someone is signed in, displaying an organized listing of every single patient in the department, including their demographics, personal information, medical information, etc., for anyone and everyone who walks by to gain access to. Of course, since this matter was taken very seriously, this did not happen often in my case. Log-ins were tracked by management and they were alerted if any ER personnel gained access to a patient chart whom they were not responsible for the care of, then a meeting was scheduled to question that staff member as to why they were in that particular patient chart and a serious investigation was held. The staff members were all very aware of the consequences of HIPPA violations. We learned that each individual RN or staff member responsible for breaching the privacy of a patients chart would be fined a fee of $250,000 and possibly face jail time, in addition to a much larger fine that the Medical Center would receive. Staff education and frequent in-services need to increase across the board in order to stress the importance of this growing problem in health care.

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