CBC reports:
More than 700 patients of the Roseway Hospital in Shelburne are receiving letters of apology after a privacy breach.
A hospital employee — who has since been fired — inappropriately accessed the medical information of 707 patients through a work computer, said Fraser Mooney, a spokesman for South West Health.
Mooney said the problem came to light when another employee went to a manager with a concern.
“We became aware of some suspicious activity through the normal course of daily business, probably back in mid-April,” Mooney told CBC News on Thursday.
“That greatly concerned us so we conducted a thorough and very careful investigation, which included an audit of electronic records.”
Mooney said the electronic audit went back about two years. It revealed the same person had viewed 707 individual patient records without authorization or a valid reason.
Are we to understand that they had not done any such audits until an employee came to them with a specific targeted concern?
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