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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 April 28, 2011. Also cited in 317 other reports.
Report ID: SPE000000061720, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Reported Entity: VISN 16 Little Rock, AR
Issue:
An employee states they are an employee as well as Veteran and was seen in the Emergency Department and their supervisor states they went into the employee's health record and checked the employee's discharge time due to a discrepancy on the leave request. Update: 04/28/11:The employee will be sent a letter of notification.
Outcome:
Supervisor has had additional training and knows now that access is not permitted. Appropriate actions taken by service. Letter has gone out to Veteran/employee.