Yep. Academia too, as I was informed in no uncertain terms. Mandatory briefings, papers to sign. Nobody is unaware.
Mind you, at least one of those queries and probably more were perfectly legitimate - they had, after all, a patient who had apparently been beaten in front of them and no way of knowing it was a fake. But 50? Not a chance. Some of them were probably merely curious, but the rest had something to leak - or sell - to the media, which somebody did. Federal offense.
I'm sure Hillary Clinton got mandatory briefings and papers to sign too, as related to classified information in her possession.
Didn't mean she wasn't "unaware."
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/HIPPA is drilled into the heads of everybody in the healthcare industry, and EVERY inquiry is logged...
/Yep. Academia too, as I was informed in no uncertain terms. Mandatory briefings, papers to sign. Nobody is unaware.
I audit human subjects research at a major university, much of which takes place in the hospital. Clinical trials that use information covered by HIPAA require that the subject receive a signed copy of the consent form.
I have to report to the review board if that has not occurred - even if the subject received a copy, but not a signed copy. That’s the rules. I have seen researchers called before the board for failing to do this simple thing. Though I haven’t seen this happen, the board can force the researcher to destroy any data from a subject who was not properly consented (usually there is a way to correct this, such as send a copy of the signed consent on file to the subject).
Personally, I was surprised to see that nurses did this. I thought it might have been low level employees in the records office. The nurses know better and deserve to be fired.