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VA: Carilion Clinic employees disciplined for violating patient privacy in high-profile case

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Dissent

Luanne Rife reports:

Carilion Clinic has fired or disciplined more than a dozen employees after they peered into a patient’s medical records without any clinical reason for doing so.

Carilion declined to say how many of the 14 employees — 11 in the New River Valley and three in Roanoke — were fired, but said all were disciplined for inappropriately accessing the medical records of a patient involved in a high-profile case in the New River Valley.

 

Read more on The Roanoke Times.

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