New oversight, stiffer penalties approved for snooping into patient records
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 11:42
in Health & Medicine
California Senate moves to clamp hospital files shut following breaches of celebrities' confidential files. Alarmed by breaches in which UCLA Medical Center employees snooped in the confidential records of celebrities including Britney Spears, Farrah Fawcett and California First Lady Maria Shriver, state lawmakers moved Tuesday to clamp hospital files shut with new oversight and stiffer penalties.
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