EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER

Report ID: JVU311.01, California Department of Public Health

Reported Entity: EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER

Issue:

Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to prevent the unauthorized access and /or disclosure of Patient A's medical/private information.This failure had the potential to result in the misuse of Patient A's medical/private information.Findings:On October 14, 2013, at 11:25 a.m., a phone investigation was conducted for an entity reported incident. In a concurrent interview with the Compliance Specialist (CA), the CS stated on October 1, 2013, documents containing Patient A's laboratory test results were faxed to an unintended recipient.The CS stated before the documents were faxed, the staff member responsible for faxing the documents, did not check to ensure the intended fax recipient was the correct fax recipient.The documents contained the following information:Patient A's name,Date of birth,Medical record number,Account number,andTest results.The facility policy and procedure titled "HIPPA- Use and Disclosure of Protected Health Information undated, indicated "It is the policy of ...(facility's name) that the confidentiality of Protected Health information in records and collected...will be protected to the fullest extent possible."The facility indicated, "To protect the patient's right to privacy and confidentiality, at no time will names or information be shared with any person who does not have the need to know in order to provide patient care."

Outcome:

Deficiency cited by the California Department of Public Health: Health & Safety Code 1280

Related Reports:

1 other violation reported on the same date. Note that other citations may be about the same event: F44111.01