Thursday, October 23, 2003

A tough lesson on medical privacy / Pakistani transcriber threatens UCSF over back pay

A tough lesson on medical privacy / Pakistani transcriber threatens UCSF over back pay: "A woman in Pakistan doing cut-rate clerical work for UCSF Medical Center threatened to post patients' confidential files on the Internet unless she was paid more money. To show she was serious, the woman sent UCSF an e-mail earlier this month with actual patients' records attached. "

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