VICTORIA – Island Health is notifying 198 individuals across the region after discovering their health record privacy was breached by two employees. Island Health’s investigation confirmed the employees used their access privileges to view the records of patients with whom they had no care or service relationship.
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TORONTO – A proposed class action for a breach of privacy has been commenced against Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga Ophthalmologist Dr. Tony Vettese, and his assistant, Lisa Lyons. The claim seeks $2 million in general damages as well as exemplary damages and punitive damages, plus individual awards for class members, costs and interest.
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VICTORIA – Just after Island Health announced it was notifying 196 patients that their health records were breached by two non-clinical support staff, B.C.’s privacy commissioner urged the B.C. government to strengthen its privacy laws and impose fines of up to $50,000 for healthcare workers found snooping.
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TORONTO – After pleading guilty to leaking the private information of patients at the Rouge Valley Health System and The Scarborough Hospital, a former maternity ward nurse and an RESP broker face three months of house arrest, two years’ probation and 340 hours of community service.
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TORONTO – Outsourcing IT services, software and storage has become a core aspect of modern business, which has created new and often unforeseen sources of potential liability. Risks can include costly business interruptions, embarrassing security breaches and permanent data loss. As a lawyer, in-house counsel or IT professional, you need to know how to effectively and safely navigate through Cloud and SaaS based environments.
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TORONTO – Ontario is on its way to a new healthcare privacy protection act – in early May, the Health Information Protection Act (HIPA) passed third reading in the Ontario legislature. The Act introduces new measures to improve privacy, accountability and transparency in the healthcare system.
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TORONTO – Two health workers who peered into late mayor Rob Ford’s (pictured) electronic health records without authorization have become the first in Ontario to be convicted under the province’s health privacy law.
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WINNIPEG – A former provincial health employee has been charged with snooping into the confidential health records of a family member. According to a source who contacted the Winnipeg Free Press, the man allegedly accessed the personal health information of several members of his own family, including his brother who has since died of cancer, his brother’s wife, and his own children.
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PETERBOROUGH, Ont. – A nurse has been suspended for four months by a disciplinary panel at the College of Nurses of Ontario for snooping through nearly 300 patient files at Peterborough Regional Health Centre. Mandy Edgerton (formerly Edgerton-Reid) also received a formal reprimand by the panel.
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BEDFORD, N.S. – A business woman in Bedford has been receiving mental health records of strangers via fax for over ten years. Despite her efforts to correct the error and stop the faxes, they continue to arrive.
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