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Hospital Not Liable for Facebook Post of Patient Medical Records

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Dissent

Mary Anne Pazanowski reports that once again, a court has ruled that an employer is not liable for what an employee does if they the employee was not acting within the scope of their employment duties:

An Indiana hospital isn’t liable for an employee’s unauthorized actions that allegedly led to the posting of a patient’s medical records on Facebook, a state appeals court said.

Brooke Collins wasn’t acting within the scope of her employment at a Franciscan Alliance Inc. hospital when she allegedly accessed and distributed the confidential health information of Leslie Hayden, someone with whom she wasn’t on good terms with personally, the Indiana Court of Appeals said. The court affirmed pretrial judgment for Franciscan.

Read more on Bloomberg Law.

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