Fletcher Allen Health Care

A physician pleaded guilty to unlawfully obtaining the private medical information of another person.  The former employee accessed the records of several women who were not his patients.  In one case, he was in a sexual relationship with a woman and accessed her information to check if she carried sexually transmitted diseases.  The crime occurred in 2008.  The physician is scheduled to be sentenced on March 26, 2012 and faces a maximum sentence of one year in prison and a $50,000 fine.