Comments on: Kaiser Permanente breaches member privacy — again & again http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2006/07/28/kaiser-permanente-breaches-member-privacy-again-again/ Kaiser Permanente: Failure to Thrive -- A Managed Care Watch Web Site Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:49:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: anonymous http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2006/07/28/kaiser-permanente-breaches-member-privacy-again-again/#comment-13974 anonymous Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:59:31 +0000 http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2006/07/28/kaiser-permanente-breaches-member-privacy-again-again/#comment-13974 I need to help. I need to discuss a HIPPA violation that I am involved with. I need to help. I need to discuss a HIPPA violation that I am involved with.

]]> By: Laola http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2006/07/28/kaiser-permanente-breaches-member-privacy-again-again/#comment-9284 Laola Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:46:13 +0000 http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2006/07/28/kaiser-permanente-breaches-member-privacy-again-again/#comment-9284 Privacy breaches happen all the time--HIPPA?! I'm not sure that Kaiser cares what that means. When I get those memos, it's so funny, on how "protecting the privacy and security of our members' personal medical information is taken seriously", many employees just throw them away. Because everyone really knows that if you report any wrong doing within the company, Kaiser will work to cover it up and then make the source of the report look as though it is without credibility. Kaiser is not really interested in protecting its members or employees,especially for that matter, from this illegal act of privacy violating, their just too involved in hiding or losing the proof, in their efforts to avoid lawsuits when they see one that is rightly coming. Our region is just hanging on by its nails. Staffing is outrageously short, because the honest employees are pushed out or abused too long to take it. According to The Compliance Department in our region not even all of of our computer programs are trackable to the users id/password, making it conveniently easy to say that there is no evidence of wrongdoing-when patient info is looked up, on a "want to" know bases. I learned this all the hard way, before I really understood the substance of the so called non-profit organization I work for, I'm sorry but someone is profiting from this corporation and it's not the patients or its very own "valued employees". When employees follow the standard procedures for reporting these incidents, even when the evidence WAS there, somehow it disappears? But I will stop rambling on, because there's so much more to the problem of Kaiser's empty advertising claims. Privacy breaches happen all the time–HIPPA?! I’m not sure that Kaiser cares what that means. When I get those memos, it’s so funny, on how “protecting the privacy and security of our members’ personal medical information is taken seriously”, many employees just throw them away. Because everyone really knows that if you report any wrong doing within the company, Kaiser will work to cover it up and then make the source of the report look as though it is without credibility. Kaiser is not really interested in protecting its members or employees,especially for that matter, from this illegal act of privacy violating, their just too involved in hiding or losing the proof, in their efforts to avoid lawsuits when they see one that is rightly coming.

Our region is just hanging on by its nails. Staffing is outrageously short, because the honest employees are pushed out or abused too long to take it. According to The Compliance Department in our region not even all of of our computer programs are trackable to the users id/password, making it conveniently easy to say that there is no evidence of wrongdoing-when patient info is looked up, on a “want to” know bases. I learned this all the hard way, before I really understood the substance of the so called non-profit organization I work for, I’m sorry but someone is profiting from this corporation and it’s not the patients or its very own “valued employees”.

When employees follow the standard procedures for reporting these incidents, even when the evidence WAS there, somehow it disappears? But I will stop rambling on, because there’s so much more to the problem of Kaiser’s empty advertising claims.

]]> By: gadfly http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2006/07/28/kaiser-permanente-breaches-member-privacy-again-again/#comment-434 gadfly Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:04:07 +0000 http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2006/07/28/kaiser-permanente-breaches-member-privacy-again-again/#comment-434 Another one! I bet at this point Kaiser just has a boilerplate letter they use for any privacy breach. I wonder what would happen if someone ran a retrieval program for deleted files on the laptops? Another one! I bet at this point Kaiser just has a boilerplate letter they use for any privacy breach.

I wonder what would happen if someone ran a retrieval program for deleted files on the laptops?

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