Comments on: Local Hospital Warns 1,000 Patient Records Wrongly Accessed

By: NWFLA Linda

NWFLA Linda — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 17:34:56 +0000

The Russians likely did it. I say that with sarcasm as one of the several million Federal workers whose personal info was hacked by the Chinese. Have come to conclusion, if you’re alive, you’re hackable. This is all the more frustrating because of the repeated training and “safeguards” we were subjected to in order to protect our and other’s personal data. We were not authorized to keep paperwork at our own desk with our own personal info in it due to PII (personally identifiable information) regulations. Lot of good that did!

By: A citizen

A citizen — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 11:52:54 +0000

Former patient, article stated at bottom that employee was put on leave then subsequently terminated, I take that as being fired.

By: Former Paitent also

Former Paitent also — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 01:46:41 +0000

They were accessed within approximately a 45 day window….minus at least two days off per week….how did they get any work done that they were being paid to do. Also I wish it said if said employee was still employed or not. I hope not.

By: More Than A Mistake

More Than A Mistake — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 01:24:30 +0000

To no big deal…

Apparently you didn’t receive a warning yourself. If you would have you would’ve been notified of the misprint on the dates of the incident. According to my warning it stated that the incident lasted for an entire year. So, you’re telling me this employee happened to “accidentally” access these records through another employees terminal for a year? Try again. These files were purposefully accesssed. You can’t downplay something of this magnitude.

Sure, there are countless entities accessing my records at any given time. That’s fine. However, they better have the clearance and substantial reasoning in order to do so.

By: no big deal

no big deal — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 23:17:02 +0000

I applaud ACH for making this public. I am shocked that MORE incidences are not brought into the light. It happens. All the time. It sounds like this was not malicious.

According to the description it is possible that an employee simply neglected to log out before a different employee used the terminal. Easy mistake. It is possible the accused employee did not even read the records since the article simply states they were “accessed.” There are way too many benign explanations to cause anyone to be upset or feel violated.

I know, I know HIPAA and all that, but come on, folks. If there are electronic records, there are countless entities accessing them.

By: Concerned former patient at Atmore hospital

Concerned former patient at Atmore hospital — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 22:11:18 +0000

Will the name be released of this personal who has committed these privacy crimes against the patients ? I mean I don’t understand why their name can be kept private our personal information was invaded & violated by them we at least should know who they are and their identity exposed publicly

By: lone chief

lone chief — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 19:27:48 +0000

This is happening more and more often. It sure doesn’t help that our health records are kept off-site by yet another company. I am amazed that everyone hasn’t figured out that NOTHING is safe on a computer. One of my Doc’s uses a records place somewhere in Michigan (I think)., “so you can easily access it”. Uh-huh, and apparently so can everyone else. Even the company has a disclaimer when you access file..something to the effect of “if you have accessed this information by error please disregard or delete”. Yeah, that didn’t give me a ‘warm and fuzzy’. Of course when I challenged the Doc’s I was the bad guy! Whatever happened to the Privacy Act of 1974?