Just wanted to let everyone know that at least one HR consultant has their Outlook calendar set so that the ENTIRE COMPANY can see all meeting details. In the meeting subject line, this person often includes the full name of the employee AND medical information pertaining to leave and specific conditions, etc. So if you have had meetings with this person or this person has had meetings about you, the likelihood is extremely high that others in the company have seen your private (potentially medical) information even though it should have been kept confidential.
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The issue was reported and resolved
Shame on the OP!
No kidding! That is not right
This is disturbing information, Original Poster, and I hope you reported it to your supervisor or someone who can address the breach of confidentiality. But, I don't understand why you were looking at another employee's Outlook calendar in the first place? Who has time for that?
Of course HR has made a huge error and it should be reported, but would you like it if you made an error and it was blasted on the internet? And by someone posting your error it drove others to find your error, exposing PHI even more than it already had? I agree, the OP shares some unethical behavior by advertising the error. Hopefully it was reported
That isn't fair though to us that our personal info is broadcasted I seem to think OP is the ethical one and not HR rep, come on that's HR 101, privacy, privacy,privacy
It has EVERYTHING with the ethics of the OP. If we mess up, yes, it is dealt with. However, they don't broadcast it far and wide for everyone to see or for others to go and look for said calendar and look at the private info. Pretty crappy move if you ask me. This could easily be reported and kept private. And please tell me, have you ever in your life made an error? A quick click on the computer can inadvertently do this. Is it wrong, sure. Does it belong in here? No way!
In defense of the poster it has nothing to do with being ethical or not. We are HR's clients. Just like Humana members have every right to make a complete stink about it if we mess up, we have the right as well. But truly this does need reported, if it wasn't, so that person can be handled appropriately whatever that may be.
Rather than bad mouth the HR rep who did this, perhaps you should send her an email and let her know. She probably has no idea she has done this. Pretty unethical of you to spread this around.
Thanks for the info. Would you feel comfortable giving us this persons initials?
Sounds like you need to make a copy and report as hippa violation