Do I Report a Mis-Directed Medical Report?

Question

I checked my Yahoo email account today to clear out spam. I never use it so I know that anything in there is pretty much spam. Today I discovered something that wasn't spam: someone's psych evaluation. Someone sent a confidential psych evaluation to some people and to me by accident. Now I know accidents happen but why is this stuff going out by email and why is it going to the wrong address? Scary. I did a "reply all" and told the people to be more careful next time. However, if it was my report that was mis-addressed, I'd be pretty pissed off. Is there some other reporting I should be doing or have I done enough?

Answer 1

Michael, Someone actually broke the HIPPA Privacy Law by sending you that email mistakenly. You can report it to the Dean of the Facility where the report came from. This is a serious thing and should not be taken lightly by the people who send it to the wrong email address. It also makes me wonder if someone was sharing confidential information through emails, since I've never really heard of emailing a confidential report before. I work in a Medical Facility and we usually fax or mail reports/records, never through emails. Something sounds quite fishy about this.

Answer 2

Trolls report for anything. And, the sad thing is, Yahoo! takes them seriously and deletes the question. I've had LOTS of answers deleted when they violated NO guidelines whatsoever, and it really pisses me off, but you just have to ignore it. There will always be fun-spoilers out there.

Answer 3

That is about all you can do. I used to get faxes with medical info and would tear them up and fax a message back telling the people to fix the phone number they were using.

Answer 4

um, well if u CAN, just tell the person who was SUPPOSED to get the email. let HIM/HER handle it, belive me, u don't wanna get involved.