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Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
Mentioned in a privacy incident report created by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on May 5, 2014. Also cited in 34 other reports.
Report ID: PSETS0000103685, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Reported Entity: HOUSTON TX - 580
Issue:
Employee received copy of sensitive patient access report and is questioning whether one MEDVA employee's access to his record was for a valid business purpose.
Outcome:
05/13/14: The Incident Resolution Team has determined that the employee will be sent a HIPAA notification letter due to Protected Health Information (PHI) being accessed inappropriately. This is not HITECH reportable as it happened before 9/23/09.