Lee Griffi reports on a hospital breach in Ontario:
Woodstock Hospital officials have now released a few details about a reported privacy breach that occurred between January and May of this year.
The hospital released a statement on social media late last week and has also sent letters to 56 patients who reportedly had their privacy breached.
“At Woodstock Hospital, we are committed to safeguarding our patients’ personal health information and take any breach of privacy very seriously,” hospital officials said in the statement.
In the statement, the hospital confirmed it had identified an employee who was viewing patients’ health information without a valid work-related reason.
Read more at Woodstock Sentinel-Review.