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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 20, 2011. Also cited in 317 other reports.
Report ID: SPE000000061333, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Reported Entity: VISN 16 Little Rock, AR
Issue:
Employee A accessed CPRS to view Employee B's record to identify his birth date for personal reasons. He did not review any other information other than birth date on the employee record. The employee was verbally counseled by his Service Chief. Update: 04/20/11:Employee B will be sent a letter offering credit protection services.NOTE: There were a total of 17 Mis-Handling incidents this reporting period. Because of repetition, the other 16 are not included in this report, but are included in the "Mis-Handling Incidents" count at the end of this report. In all incidents, Veterans will receive a notification letter and/or credit monitoring will be offered if appropriate.
Outcome:
Appropriate actions to be taken - training in regards to staff utilizing the system for personal reasons as well as privacy in general. Letter has gone out to individualwill send redacted copy.