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Ca: Horizon employee fired after ‘significant privacy breach’ at Charlotte County Hospital

Posted on July 9, 2021 by Dissent

Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon reports:

A Horizon Health Network employee has been fired after they “inappropriately accessed” the personal health information of 1,251 people at Charlotte County Hospital in St. Stephen, N.B., allegedly “out of curiosity.”

In a statement, Horizon’s vice-president of quality and patient-centred care, Margaret Melanson, describes the situation as a “significant privacy breach.”

Read more on CBC.

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