In the last three years, Manitoba hospital workers were found to violate patients’ privacy more than 1,000 times, according to an investigation conducted by the Manitoba Free Press. According to data reviewed by the newspaper, hospital workers in the province breached patient data more than 1,100 times from January 2019 through April 2022, and questions remain if workers were disciplined for the violations. Hospital human resources officials either said disclosing the nature of employee discipline would violate their right to privacy or such records were not kept out of concern of potential privacy violations.
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