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NZ: Privacy breach over Jesse Ryder's medical files

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Dissent

From Radio New Zealand, the bad news and the good news:

Canterbury District Health Board has apologised for a privacy breach in which cricketer Jesse Ryder’s medical file was accessed by unauthorised hospital staff.

Ryder was admitted to Christchurch Hospital on 28 March with a fractured skull and collapsed lung, following an attack outside a bar in the suburb of Merivale.

Health board chief executive David Meates has confirmed four staff viewed Ryder’s X-ray results when they did not have the authority to do so.

One staff member was in Christchurch, two were on the West Coast and one was in South Canterbury.

Mr Meates says the privacy breach is unacceptable and he has personally apologised to Ryder.

However he says it is reassuring to know the checks on traceable staff log-in accounts used to access patient information are working.

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has been contacted and an investigation will be carried out.

I agree with Mr. Meates that it’s good to know the detection system worked. Now if they can sharped their prevention system….

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