Hospital Posts Patient’s STD Diagnosis To Facebook

TwistedAegis said:
If this is true, they absolutely should have their asses sued. Particularly with HIPAA; she's only asking for $25,000, should be asking for a hell of a lot more.
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HIPAA was meant to prevent this very thing from happening. Oh guess what, another piece of regulation from government failed.
 
Methadras said:
HIPAA was meant to prevent this very thing from happening. Oh guess what, another piece of regulation from government failed.
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Yup, and there's never been an instance of a cop who's done something dirty either!

You can't remove the human factor from any type of system, what was done was maliciousness on the part of some people who knew the woman, it was not a "mistake" in the system.
 
We now have better info. The article linked to in the OP was badly confused on some basic points.

There was just one employee at the medical center. She was the ex-boyfriend's other baby mama.

The reason for the lawsuit being for $25,000 is that this is "the maximum a plaintiff is allowed to request under Ohio court reform law." The lawyer filing for the suit is asking for a jury trial and damages in excess of $25,000.
 
This is the age-old problem with security. In this case, one person made a bad call, probably not someone who is very smart in the first place. She had access, gave out the info. How do you limit who has access to this sort of info and still have people able to do their jobs?

And what if those people aren't even one step out of the trailer park?
 
Everyone else has already mentioned it, but if nothing else HIPAA will give her greater recourse under the law for damages. Ohio's small limit notwithstanding.
 
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