CA Regina QuAppelle Regional Health Authority 2008 Misuse (Q10297)
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A data breach risk event
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CA Regina QuAppelle Regional Health Authority 2008 Misuse
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A data breach risk event
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January 2008
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After several privacy breaches Saskatchewans Information and Privacy Commissioner is telling the Regina QuAppelle Regional Health Authority it needs to do something to stop its employees from snooping. The recommendations stem from three incidents that happened in the RQHR over the past five years. The first happened in January of 2008 at the Regina General Hospital. Some employees found out one of their co-workers was a patient in the health region, so they logged on to the health info program and looked at the co-workers information. The employee directly implicated in the privacy breach was originally fired, but was reinstated after arbitration. The second happened in June of 2009 in one of the health regions medical labs. A lab assistant tried to access her own files, and when she did (English)
