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VA Health Care Upstate New York (VISN 2)
Mentioned in a privacy incident report created by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on December 7, 2011. Also cited in 132 other reports.
Report ID: SPE000000069387, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Reported Entity: VISN 02 Albany, NY
Issue:
On 10/25/11, a Life Insurance company faxed a request and signed release from Veteran A for the last 5 years of medical records. Veteran A then revoked the release in a letter that was faxed to the VA two days later on 10/27/11. However, the Insurance company re-faxed a second request for records on 11/09/11 and the Release Of Information (ROI) clerk inadvertantly processed the request and sent all the records for the last 5 years to the Life Insurance company. Update: 12/07/11:Veteran A will be sent a notification letter.
Outcome:
Supervisor and Manager re-educated employee.