Celeb News & Compliance Collide
According to NBC 5 Chicago (Here) : “At least 50 employees may have been fired from Northwestern Memorial Hospital for accessing the medical profile and records of ‘Empire’ actor Jussie Smollett without authorization…”
Jussie Smollett’s story has been making the news since January and is filled with juicy twists and turns. Of course it’s a fertile breeding ground for HIPAA breaches. Any celebrity medical record is. Any (healthcare related) big news story is. When you put them together the effect is exponential. Curiosity is the nemesis of good HIPAA compliance. And as one nurse in the story points out, sometimes one click is all it takes.