Fifteen hospital employees fired for looking at OctoMom's files

Medical Laboratory Observer, May, 2009

* Fifteen hospital employees fired for looking at OctoMom's files. A Kaiser Permanente spokesman in California said that 15 employees were fired after improperly accessing Nadya Suleman's medical records. Suleman is the single woman whose in vitro fertilization added octuplets to the six children she already had at home.

No evidence was uncovered that indicated her patient information was revealed to any entity outside of the hospital. Aside from the 15 who lost their jobs, eight other people were disciplined. According the Kaiser Permanente report, numerous training sessions were held after the incidents that stressed the importance of patient privacy and confidentiality.