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Sierra Pacific Network (VISN 21)
Mentioned in a privacy incident report created by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on August 25, 2011. Also cited in 141 other reports.
Report ID: SPE000000066109, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Reported Entity: VISN 21 San Francisco, CA
Issue:
Contract CBOC employee impermissibly accessed a Veteran employee's Veteran Health Record for employment purposes to get the employees (Veteran) home address and phone number and had access to other Protected Health Information (PHI) upon accessing the record. At the time of the incident an incident ticket was not submitted. The Veteran employee filed a HHS-OCR complaint and now needs to submit an incident ticket for credit monitoring requested by the OCR investigator. Update: 08/25/11:One Veteran will be sent a letter offering credit protection services.
Outcome:
The PO provided one on one training to the subject of the complaint. The employee was sanctioned (counseled) by her immediate supervisor. A credit monitoring letter was sent to the complainant.