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.
On Oct. 7, UCSF officials received an e-mail from Baloch, who described herself as 'a medical doctor by profession.' She said Spires owed her money and had cut off all communication. Baloch demanded that UCSF find Spires and remedy the situation.
She wrote: 'Your patient records are out in the open to be exposed, so you better track that person and make him pay my dues or otherwise I will expose all the voice files and patient records of UCSF Parnassus and Mt. Zion campuses on the Internet.'
Actual files containing dictation from UCSF doctors were attached to the e- mail. The files reportedly involved two patients."
jaynote: I sent this to Jerry Pournell, and he included it in his weblog mail section
On Oct. 7, UCSF officials received an e-mail from Baloch, who described herself as 'a medical doctor by profession.' She said Spires owed her money and had cut off all communication. Baloch demanded that UCSF find Spires and remedy the situation.
She wrote: 'Your patient records are out in the open to be exposed, so you better track that person and make him pay my dues or otherwise I will expose all the voice files and patient records of UCSF Parnassus and Mt. Zion campuses on the Internet.'
Actual files containing dictation from UCSF doctors were attached to the e- mail. The files reportedly involved two patients."
jaynote: I sent this to Jerry Pournell, and he included it in his weblog mail section
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