Scenario A:

You received an email from an Employee John's manager at Health Facility A stating that John at searched the facility's encrypted Electronic Health Record (EHR) for patient X's medical record using patient X's first and last name. John is a nurse in the pediatric department of Health Facility A. The patient is a geriatric patient, and not under the care of the nurse. John accessed patient X's entire medical history and disclosed the patient's medical history on social media.

1. What questions woul dyou ask?
2. Please answer and explain?
3. Did the employee violate the health facility's policy?
4. Did the employee violate HIPAA?
5. Did the employee violate any California privacy and/or security laws?
6. Was this a reportable breach to 1) OCR, 2) CDPH, and/or 3) patient(s) affected?
7. Fill out the data elements of the form and indicate?
8. The category determination of the employee's potential violation?
9. Sanction impacting factors?
10. Sanctions applied based on your assessment of the potential violation?