A patient scheduled for an operation suspects that she is pregnant. If she is pregnant the operation will have to be postponed, so her physician sends her to an outpatient lab to have a pregnancy test performed. When the physician’s office calls the laboratory for the pregnancy test results a laboratory assistant says the information will be sent immediately through their computer network to the office. Before the information can be sent, the laboratory assistant is called away and leaves the patient’s pregnancy test results on the screen. Is this a problem and why? What law addresses this situation?