Case Study: Administrative Safeguards

You are the technologist in charge of the hematology section in a hospital laboratory, and you are reviewing blood count results for 100 patients as part of an internal quality assurance project. You review the clinical findings in the electronic medical record to correlate with the laboratory results.

The following week get a call from your hospital security officer. She says that a routine computer system audit has revealed that you accessed the records of 100 patients and she would like to know why.

You tell her:

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