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Magee admits privacy breach in whistleblower filing

Posted on November 12, 2008 by Dissent

Walter F. Roche Jr. reports:

Attorneys for Magee-Womens Hospital filed documents available on the Internet that included the names and confidential medical information of several patients, in what hospital officials called an inadvertent violation of federal law.

The filings were made in the case of a former secretary at the UPMC facility who was fired from her job on charges that she violated patient confidentiality when she accessed and printed patient records. Donna Kovacs sued, claiming the hospital wrongfully terminated her after she raised questions about patient care and recordkeeping.

Common Pleas Judge Timothy P. O’Leary on Monday issued an order calling for the immediate removal of the data from the open court file, as an Allegheny County jury began a second week of hearing testimony in the Kovacs case.

Read more in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

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