Eight employees at Hamilton Health Sciences have been terminated after their employer alleges they “inappropriately accessed” the personal health information of thousands of patients.
In a statement released this week, Hamilton Health Sciences said the privacy breach involved 4,000 patients.
A letter has been issued to affected patients and the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario has been notified. “We want to sincerely apologize to everyone who is affected by the breach,” said Aaron Levo, the vice-president of People, Culture and Communications at HHS.The statement went on to say that the hospital has implemented a “number of policies, systems, and processes,” to prevent further privacy breaches, including staff training, routine and random audits of access to patient information, and an ongoing review of hospital systems and information-sharing practices.
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