Employees and staff members at the UCLA Medical Center face serious repercussions after accessing Britney Spears' medical records without legal permission. Doctors and employees uninvolved in Spears' looked at medical records updated after her stay in the Medical Center between January 31 and February 6, 2008. This is not the first violation of Spears' medical records at the UCLA Medical Center.
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Incident violates Spears' rights under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, enacted in 2003
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Employees were warned by email not to access the records unless involved in Spears' treatment
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Employees sign confidentiality agreements upon being hired
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13 employees fired
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Six doctors face disciplinary action
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Staff members were similarly reprimanded for accessing Spears' records in 2005 after her son Sean Preston was born on the premises
