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South Central VA Health Care Network (VISN 16)
Mentioned in a privacy incident report created by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on March 9, 2011. Also cited in 317 other reports.
Report ID: SPE000000059324, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Reported Entity: VISN 16 Biloxi, MS
Issue:
Employee A entered the record of Employee B. The employees are married. Update: 03/14/11: This is not the first time the spouse look at their spouse's record. It is unknown if the spouse (Employee B) knows that their spouse looke at their record. Therefore Employee B will receive a notification letter.
Outcome:
Supervisor met with employee A and discussed incident. No valid reason why employee A accessed employee B's record. This is a second offense of inappropriate access by employee A into employee B's record. Privacy Officer preparing memorandum to Service Chief for appropriate disciplinary action of second offense; require employee A to retake privacy training; ISO's monthly monitoring of inappropriate sensitive records access.