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Canada Dashboard Digest | Regina Health did not take proper action following illicit viewing of patient records Related reading: The key elements for understanding marketing privacy

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The Canadian Press reports an investigation conducted by Saskatchewan's privacy commissioner found Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region did not act properly after an employee was caught illicitly viewing patient records. The Regina employee inappropriately accessed 97 medical records of 35 people, but the Commission investigation revealed the health system took three months to put the employee on leave, and did not alert patients to the breach in an appropriate amount of time. “RQRHA advised that it placed the snooping employee on a paid administrative leave on January 29, 2016, for one month. This however was over three months after the initial complaint was received leaving the employee with the ability to potentially continue to inappropriately access the medical records of individuals while further auditing took place," Commissioner Ronald Kruzeniski wrote in his report.
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