The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced that the University of California at Los Angeles Health System has agreed to pay a $865,000 fine for violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

"[The] settlement follows an investigation by HHS's Office of Civil Rights into complaints by two unidentified celebrity patients that UCLA hospital staff had inappropriately accessed their electronic protected health information," writes Computerworld's Jaikumar Vijayan.

"The OCR investigation uncovered numerous other instances between 2005 and 2009 where hospital employees had looked at protected health information belonging to other patients as well," Vijayan writes.

Go to "UCLA Medical Center agrees to settle HIPAA violation charges for $865K" to read the details.

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