Unauthorized Medical Record Access

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Another lesson in basic morality, this time regarding Privacy Laws:

Have you ever been tempted to troll around a computer network and look at the medical records of patients and even good friends just to get your "snoop" on?


It's probably not a very good idea, even as a highly intelligent medical student.


Privacy is big business and courts love to make a quick $50k+ (and a 1+yr trip to the slammer) on a doctor or soon to be almost-was-a-doctor.

Although it might be worth it to get that tabloid information, most tabloids won't pay you anything for the dirt you gained on your poor compromised pal or another noname individual(s).


A Moral Physician would not access anyones medical records other than the ones that he was tasked with treating and he certainly wouldn't go looking for his friends hemorrhoid visits in a hospitals database because he is moral and/or afraid that someone might out his unethical activities... whereby he would be flushed.

http://privacy.med.miami.edu/glossary/xd_hipaa_sanctions.htm


George is way too nice, he should burn those folks... I say let them flip burgers to pay the big fines. They knew what they did was wrong and they should be made examples of.

http://www.njbiz.com/weekly_article...1304943.939640.7947165.1872428.291&aID2=72271

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