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Ca: Class action launched against N.S. hospitals for privacy breach

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Dissent

An update to a breach affecting Roseway Hospital, reported previously on this blog.  Eva Hoare reports:

A Halifax law firm has started a class action against a provincial health authority after a worker accessed the private medical records of hundreds of South Shore patients.

[…]

An investigation into the records breach, made public in mid-June, shows 707 patients have been alerted their personal medical information has been accessed.

The authority runs three hospitals in the district, including Roseway, Digby General and Yarmouth Regional.

Hemeon and Magee allege the authority did not use “proper protocols and procedures” at those facilities to ensure sensitive medical information was not leaked, Ray Wagner, with the law firm, said in a news release Monday.

Read more on The Chronicle Herald.

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