Former UCLA Hospital Employee Sentenced To Prison for HIPAA Privacy Violations

LOS ANGELES—A former worker at the UCLA Healthcare System was sentenced April 27 to four months in federal prison for illegally accessing confidential medical records, including those of celebrities and other high-profile patients, the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles announced (United States v. Zhou).

The sentencing of Huping Zhou by U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Wistrich marked the first time in the Southern California region that a defendant has received a prison term for “snooping” into confidential medical records, Assistant U.S. Attorney Consuelo S. Woodhead told BNA April 28. Zhou is the second person in the nation to ...