Greg Davis reports:
Campbellford Memorial Hospital says an employee has apologized for making “unauthorized” access to more than 3,500 patients records.
Global News Peterborough has obtained a copy of one of the 3,500 letters sent to patients last week outlining a privacy breach at the hospital in the Municipality of Trent Hills.
In the letter, hospital chief privacy officer Erin Keogh says a clinician “mistakenly” thought they could access health records of patients not under their care for the purposes of their own clinical education.
It’s somewhat hard to believe that a clinician could have believed they could access records that way. It’s also somewhat hard to understand how the hospital neither prevented unauthorized access nor caught it sooner.
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