CBC News reports:
Newfoundland and Labrador’s privacy commissioner is ordering Eastern Health to remind staff to log out of computer programs, following an investigation of a privacy breach.
Information and Privacy Commissioner Donovan Molloy’s report describes the May 28, 2015 incident as an “intentional breach of patient information.”
The report says an unknown person inappropriately accessed and printed personal health information from the account of a doctor who didn’t log out of patient information software, called Meditech.
While a number of patients were involved, Molloy only looked into two specific complaints.
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