This document discusses the serious issue of record peeking or accessing private medical records without authorization. It provides real world examples of employees who were fired or faced legal consequences for peeking at celebrities' medical records. The document emphasizes that record peeking is a breach of privacy, potentially illegal, and can result in termination, fines, jail time or loss of professional licenses. It stresses the importance of reporting any instances of unauthorized access to prevent consequences.

1. Record Peeking
Don’t Do It

2. What is it?
It is a breech of
medical privacy
And is potentially
Illegal

3. Real World Examples
Turns out a lot more people than George
Clooney and his girlfriend were hurt by the
Hollywood hunk’s motorcycle accident last
month. As many as 40 doctors and other
employees at the Palisades Medical Center in
North Bergen, N.J., gotsuspensions
for allegedly leaking confidential medical
information about the couple.

4. Joe the Plumber
 The 2008 presidential campaign focused
unprecedented attention on ―employee
snooping or peeking into personal files, from the
candidates’ passports, to Future President
Obama’s cell phone records, to Joe the
Plumber’s child support payments.

5. Oops I did it again
U.C.L.A.FIRED 13 employees and
suspended six others for snooping through
Britney Spears’s medical files.

6. It’s just for my own curiosity
What
difference
does it
make?

7. Walk a mile in my shoes
How would it feel to know
someone is snooping
through your personal
information and potentially
turning it over to someone
else? Would you like it?

8. And
the
Loser is?

9. What does this mean to the
company?
UCLA hospitals to pay $865,500 for
breaches of celebrities' privacy
Settlement with U.S. regulators also calls
for UCLA to retrain staff and take steps to
prevent future breaches. Some staff have
already been fired for viewing the records
of Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson and
others
What happened to my raise this year?

10. Anyone who peeks in medical
records when they have no business
being in them.
A former UCLA School of
Medicine researcher will spend
four months in federal prison for
illegally peaking at confidential
private records of celebrities,
high-profile patients and co-
workers.

11. What
did you
say?

12. Jail, Prison, Slammer, Big
House

13. A new California
law that imposes
monetary
sanctions for
unauthorized
look-ing into a
person’s medical
files

14. Bottom Line
Lost of job, money,
freedom, reputation,
respect, career,
professional license

15. Is it sinking in?
Ultimately the choice is up to you.
Be warned that we are on the
lookout and serious consequences
can happen. This is a real problem
and it will not be tolerated. We now
have a 0 tolerance rule. Get caught
= lose your job minimum. No
exceptions

16. What if I see someone else doing it?
Notify your supervisor
immediately
Don’t go down for not
saying anything. You can
be guilty by association

17. Not a common sight these days

18. Program Effectiveness
This is a real problem with real
hurt to individuals and
consequences that could ruin
your life. Effectiveness of this
program is in the fact that it
outlines the real story and
possibilities. If you ignore this
rule then your playing with fire.

19. References
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,398784,00.html
http://www.btlj.org/data/articles/24_3/24_3_6.pdf
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/los-angeles-
ca/TEVD3LVMU4A186F0I