HALIFAX – Hundreds of Nova Scotian hospital patients may get to share a $1-million settlement in a case involving breaches of their privacy.
Halifax’s Wagners Law Firm has reached a proposed settlement with a former provincial health authority and if it’s approved, will offer $1,000 each to nearly 700 plaintiffs they represent in a class-action lawsuit, the Chronicle Herald newspaper reported.
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CHATHAM, Ont. – Officials from the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance have completed an investigation of a privacy breach after a copy of an operating room report was found on the front lawn of the hospital.
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OSHAWA, Ont. – Lakeridge Health said last Friday’s global cyberattack caused “unexpected computer downtime at our hospitals,” but said the impact was “not like what we’ve been hearing about worldwide.”
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ST. JOHN’s, Nfld. – Eastern Health and Memorial University’s Faculty of Medicine acknowledged a privacy breach earlier this year after a doctor emailed fellow researchers “tuberculosis-related health information” involving 122 patients.
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EDMONTON – A former Alberta health information supervisor has been fined $5,000 for unauthorized access to patient records.
Amanda Tripp pleaded guilty to 13 charges under the Health Information Act. The privacy commissioner’s office says that Alberta Health Services was notified in June 2013 that Tripp had visited with her boyfriend in the records room at the Tofield Health Centre.
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CALGARY – A woman who was accidentally given private medical information belonging to dozens of other people says she alerted the provincial privacy commissioner’s office but has been frustrated by the slow pace of the investigation.
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CLINTON, Ont. – An Ontario student has been fined $25,000 for accessing personal health information, which provincial officials say is the highest penalty of its kind ever in Canada.
The Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office says the masters of social work student was on an educational placement with a family health team in Central Huron, in southwestern Ontario, when she accessed the information without authorization.
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OTTAWA – A part-time instructor at Algonquin College, who was also an employee of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), shared the private information of 283 patients with students. The breach of privacy prompted the person’s dismissal from the college and launched a privacy investigation at the hospital.
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WINNIPEG – The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is dealing with one of the largest patient privacy breaches it has ever seen, after a file containing the personal details of about 1,000 people was taken from a locked office inside the city’s largest hospital in October.
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HALIFAX – Nova Scotia’s privacy commissioner says the provincial health authority should help doctors’ offices move away from faxing patient referrals following an investigation into why confidential mental health records were sent in error to a Bedford spa.
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