Woman sues hospital for posting her STD test results on facebook leading to harassment

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64. Of course...

.. I am not asserting that anyone with authority approved of or contributed to the action. But the way HIPAA is crafted, that doesn't matter.

the idea being that if you don't create an environment that makes confidentiality a top priority, then confidentiality will just never happen.

If you don't make the hospital (or insurance co, or any number of other business that have access to medical records) liable, there won't be such an environment or culture.

Personally, I think a lot more of our laws should be written this way, as it is HIPAA is one of the few that companies cannot wriggle out of.

In any event, the hospital is likely to fire everyone involved and they won't be getting comparable jobs from any company familiar with their infraction.

They just fucked themselves good.