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AU: ‘Curious’ pharmacist spied on patient records at The Alfred

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Dissent

Lachlan Abbott reports:

About 7000 Alfred Health patients are victims of a privacy breach after a pharmacist working at Victoria’s leading trauma hospital accessed personal medical records without authorisation.

Alfred Health wrote to every patient affected in a letter sent on Monday, seen by The Age, which said the pharmacist was dismissed after an investigation, launched in June, found they had used the hospital’s electronic database to view records over four years without a clinical reason to do so.

Read more at The Age.

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