A Case of Murder and EHRs -- Chapter Nine
A Case of Murder and EHRs
Copyright 2007 by Peter J. Groen and Jaime Nasuti.
Published with permission of the co-authors.
CHAPTER NINE
The Secret Service agents suddenly had their hands full. Dr. Rose immediately denied any wrongdoing and went on the offensive when confronted about his unauthorized access to a patient’s medical record.
However, Dr. Rose had no idea there was enough security in place within the VA’s hospital computer systems to pinpoint the exact time and place of a login, whose record was accessed, by whom, and what actions had been taken -- keystroke by keystroke. He knew nothing of the ISO capability to monitor suspicious activity within the system, or of the automatic flags that went up when access was made without authorization.
The evidence collected by the system’s security software module was damning. The Secret Service arrested Dr. Rose and took him away.