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Hospital Workers Fired For Allegedly Accessing Jussie Smollett's Medical Records
www.essence.com ^ | Mar, 08, 2019 | Paula Rogo

Posted on 03/08/2019 11:40:46 AM PST by Red Badger

Dozens of employees at Northwestern Hospital have been terminated for allegedly accessing Jussie Smollett’s medical records.

Smollett was taken to the Chicago medical facility following his alleged attack by two men back in January.

The Empire actor, who is currently out on bail, has since been charged with disorderly conduct and filing a false report, a felony. Smollett’s legal team, however, told ESSENCE in a statement that they will “mount an aggressive defense.”

The hospital employees are alleged to have gained access to Smollett’s medical chart after Chicago police and prosecutors claimed the actor staged his January 29 attack, CBS2 Chicago reports.

One of the nurses who was fired is calling the incident a misunderstanding and claims that she simply glanced at the records while looking for another patient’s information.

She is now appealing the termination and says many other hospital workers may have been let go for the same reason.

During an interview with Good Morning America last month, Smollett pushed back against critics who have accused him of lying about the assault.

“I’m pissed off. It’s like, you know, at first, it was a thing of, like, ‘Listen, if I tell the truth then that’s it,’ ’cause it’s the truth,” Smollett told GMA. “Then it became a thing of like, ‘Oh, how can you doubt that? Like, how do you — how do you not believe that? It’s the truth.’”


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: chicago; empire; hipaa; hoax; illinois; jussie; jussiesmollett; smollett
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The damage of his idiocy is multiplying........................
1 posted on 03/08/2019 11:40:46 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

meanwhile, we have leakers releasing stuff from the Trump administration and nothing is ever done to them.


2 posted on 03/08/2019 11:44:28 AM PST by euram
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To: euram

Practically impossible to stop in DC....................


3 posted on 03/08/2019 11:47:55 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

But, but...professionals...or something.


4 posted on 03/08/2019 11:55:31 AM PST by moovova
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To: Red Badger

I really hope that this nonsense doesn’t give preening, self-centered scumbag Smollett the hook needed to start playing the victim again.


5 posted on 03/08/2019 11:55:45 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: moovova

HIPAA Laws............


6 posted on 03/08/2019 11:57:14 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

His fanbase just shrunk.........................


7 posted on 03/08/2019 11:58:02 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

Smollett sucks, but so do nosy hospital workers sniffing around in other people’s medical records. Fire everybody.


8 posted on 03/08/2019 11:58:27 AM PST by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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I guess these idiots didn’t know that network record access is logged...................


9 posted on 03/08/2019 12:00:10 PM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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At least they didn’t overdose him with fentanyl like at that hospital in Columbus, Ohio.


10 posted on 03/08/2019 12:05:09 PM PST by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.r)
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To: Red Badger

Accessing medical records without a valid need is a big no no


11 posted on 03/08/2019 12:05:38 PM PST by HangnJudge
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HIPAA Laws are quite explicit................


12 posted on 03/08/2019 12:13:39 PM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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They deserve to be fired. This is a fireable offense, and should be.

No wiggle room, zero.


13 posted on 03/08/2019 12:19:57 PM PST by rlmorel (If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
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The larger problem is not that someone craves the details of Uncle Harry’s gall bladder surgery but that they collect personal ID and financial data out of patient files. Hospitals are a major source of identity fraud.


14 posted on 03/08/2019 12:20:19 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: Red Badger

I despise and detest HIPAA, not for forcing information to be hidden from those who don’t need to see it, but for the flaming stupidity enclosed in the spirit of the damn law that forces people trying to comply to do stupid, expensive, and outlandish things.

But, them’s the rules.


15 posted on 03/08/2019 12:22:21 PM PST by rlmorel (If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
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To: Red Badger

We don’t know if access was logged, especially if they had an older system, but most modern systems certainly do. And when you get that “break-glass” dialog that forces you to put in your password and say “Yes, I really do want to see the information” and why...you would have to be a moron to do it.


16 posted on 03/08/2019 12:24:09 PM PST by rlmorel (If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
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Accessing medical records without a valid need is a big no no.

You got that right. I did some consulting work for a hospital that wouldn't even release the medical records of injured employees for a safety investigation by other staff of the hospital.

HIPAA regulations are so strict that a hospital in California was fined $4 million for an employee who lost a thumb drive with patient records on it.

17 posted on 03/08/2019 12:24:30 PM PST by DeFault User
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To: Red Badger

Yes many medical records are outsourced to Indian and other countries. A few years ago someone in India I think threatened to put them on the internet unless the contracted company paid her more.


18 posted on 03/08/2019 12:27:58 PM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: Red Badger

Like, you know, no one believes him. It’s like a bunch of, you know, lies.


19 posted on 03/08/2019 12:28:28 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.)
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To: gattaca

I should add that involves medical transcription and sometimes coding the medical records. They have access to social security numbers and all kinds of info.


20 posted on 03/08/2019 12:30:14 PM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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