An unspecified number of medical staff have been fired from a Minneapolis hospital after illicitly accessing George Floyd’s medical records.
The Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) sent a letter to Floyd’s family saying that Floyd’s records were accessed “multiple” times in violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s privacy rules, Floyd family attorney Antonio Romanucci told KARE 11.
“There were multiple breaches by multiple people,” Romanucci said, citing the letter. HCMC told the family that the people responsible for the breaches “no longer work at the organization.”
Romanucci said that Floyd’s family believed the breaches were an attempt to malign Floyd’s character and that they are considering filing a lawsuit against Hennepin Healthcare.
“They feel it’s a continued assassination of George Floyd, his character. It’s a non-stop issue. And they were very upset, very disturbed, disappointed that even in death, that George Floyd’s character is being maligned by people that didn’t have any business looking at his private medical record,” Romanucci said.
In response to a question on the security breach, HCMC told the Associated Press that while the hospital does not comment on specific cases, it conducts routine audits of its medical records system and can see which employees accessed records and when to determine if they were authorized.
yea, cause no way were the gutter press paying for these records....
that would never happen. It's a HIPAA Violation /s