Viewing articles in the ‘Privacy & Security’ topic.
April 29, 2019
When a zero-day virus hit Health Sciences North in Sudbury, Ontario, earlier this year, HSN and 21 hospitals put their main electronic medical records on downtime to avoid further contamination. No data was corrupted and there was no privacy breach, but it did lead to a slowdown in a number of departments until the issue was resolved four days later. Read More
April 10, 2019
VANCOUVER – The personal health information of about 34,000 medical marijuana patients was accessed in a data breach of an electronic medical record system used by Sunniva Inc.’s Natural Health Services (NHS) Ltd. subsidiary.
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April 10, 2019
NANAIMO, B.C. – Island Health has fired an employee following a privacy breach of 102 people at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. The breach involved an employee who is “no longer associated with Island Health,” the authority said.
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April 10, 2019
VICTORIA – B.C. privacy commissioner Michael McEvoy (pictured) says it should be illegal to snoop in a patient’s medical files, as recently happened at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. “The time has come to act,” McEvoy told the Times Colonist newspaper. “The time is actually well past when we should have acted on this.”
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March 29, 2019
In 2017, TELUS built on an existing relationship with The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) by providing crucial network and security management services to the Hospital. Read More
March 27, 2019
TORONTO – The University Health Network (UHN) has changed the way it uses pagers to communicate after a local radio station discovered the health information of more than 200 patients was easily accessible to the public.
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March 13, 2019
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – Niagara Health (NH) has announced the launch of a multi-year program for the Niagara Health Navigator, a mobile application designed to protect patient privacy and security while connecting patients to their health data, care providers and innovators.
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February 27, 2019
REGINA – Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner has found eight people inappropriately gained access to the electronic health records of 10 Humboldt Broncos team members involved in a bus crash last April.
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February 27, 2019
TORONTO – The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario is launching an investigation after the Toronto Star newspaper published a story about the sale of anonymized medical records in the province.
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January 23, 2019
SUDBURY, Ont. – A computer virus at Health Sciences North led the hospital to shut down various medical systems to avoid the problem from spreading. Staff at the hospital in Sudbury called it a “zero-day virus,” meaning a virus that is was not recognized or captured by the anti-virus tools on the market.
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