Charges are still hanging over the head of a nurse accused of accessing over 5,800 patients’ information improperly over a period of years. I had previously noted the incident on this blog in 2011 when it was first made public. Now it seems like it will be June before we know whether she will be prosecuted. Maria Calabrese reports:
Hearings in June could determine whether a registered nurse will go to trial accused of privacy breaches while she worked at the North Bay Regional Health Centre.
Melissa McLellan appeared in provincial offences court Friday charged with nine counts under Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act for wrongly collecting private patient data.
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