Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Clooney Med Privacy Breach

A NJ hospital recently discovered (or just revealed) that more than twenty employees inappropriately accessed George Clooney's electronic medical record. Personally, I don't find this surprising, but I'm amazed that the hospital didn't have any protections in place for VIPs (How about a pseudonym?). Though the incident occurred, let's not be too quick to jump to conclusions about the hospital's data management or data access policies. The story is still unfolding.