The death of an infant at an Illinois hospital made national news in June 2011. Genesis Burkett passed away due to a series of errors tied to human use of the hospital's EHR systems. (The infant was born prematurely to parents who had been trying to conceive for years, and had thrived after months in neonatal intensive care until he was killed by a massive sodium chloride overdose. (You can read more about the case in the Chicago Tribune at http://tinyurl.com/8xtdqrp.)
HIPAA privacy and security officers often spend a lot of time and effort protecting their healthcare organization from the threat posed to its PHI by outsiders. Most organizations do a pretty good job of recognizing the threats to critical assets from outside their own perimeter. However, they must also not ignore the threat that comes from those inside the organization, said Randall F. Trzeciak, who spoke at the Fifth HIPAA Summit West in September in San Francisco.
