Anne Pressly. Photo Source: Wikipedia
If you’re looking for some ‘don’t try this at home’ stories for your next privacy compliance staff training session, keep this little ‘lesson learned’ in your files.
Snooping around a public figure’s medical records has been around since paper files. But these days, EMR systems make it much easier for health system administrators — and law enforcement officials — to nab folks who indulge in illicit snooping.
Earlier this summer, prosecutors charged three health care workers at St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center in Little Rock, Arkansas with improperly accessing the Anne Pressly’s medical records, the Associated Press reports. Anne Pressly was raped and murdered in October 2008 during a home invasion. The Little Rock news anchor’s death made national headlines, in part because she was a beautiful local celebrity who’d landed a bit…
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