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Park Nicollet suspends employees for EMR snooping
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Who is privileged to view my medical records? Whom could I speak with regarding a problem that I have encountered?
As a volunteer in an area hospital I have seen the Volunteer coordinator as well as her assistant look up medical information for no apparent reason. One of my tasks is to call patients at home to do a survey regarding their treatment or stay at the hospital. If there were any negative comments or suggestions regarding the survey theur medical records were looked up as well. What the information was used for is still a mystery because a Volunteer Coordinator has no medical training and should not be looking at the patients records at all.






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