Brandon Harder provides this morning’s reminder of the insider threat:
Without legal authority, a nurse who worked at Saskatoon’s Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital snooped on the private medical records of 314 patients, according to a recent report.
The report, dated April 23 and signed by Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner Ronald J. Kruzeniski, states that a registered nurse (RN) who was employed in the maternity department accessed the records for reasons “unrelated to patient care.”
The RN is not named in the report, which simply refers to the individual as the “Snooper.”
The privacy breaches occurred between Aug. 23, 2021 and Dec. 14, 2021, according to information given to Kruzeniski’s office by the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA), which brought the situation to light proactively.
The records were accessed remotely using an SHA laptop when the RN was on a leave of absence, states the privacy commissioner’s report.
The SHA told Kruzeniski’s office that the unauthorized access involved 2,437 records.
Read more at Yahoo! Canada.
The report is worth reading in its entirety as it reviews not only the issues but the timeline of SHA’s response to discovery of the breach.