Patient Confidentiality

They audit employees on their use of electronic records. They ask staff to admonish one another for discussing cases in elevators. They forbid the removal from the physical plant of research databases containing patient names. And then they make an overhead page like this: “Would J*** S**** please return to the urgent urology clinic. That’s J*** S**** to urgent urology.”

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