
Employee fired from health region for ‘snooping’ in patient records
An employee from the Prince Albert Parkland Health Region (PAPHR) has been terminated for what a report from the Information and Privacy Commissioner called “snooping” in patient records.
The report states the employee intentionally breached the records of 14 individuals, 13 of which she had personal relationships with. The breach was caught by the health region through a routine audit on June 14. The employee was not named in the report.
In a letter sent to the office of Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner Ronald J. Kruzeniski on June 29, Parkland said the employee looked up records “out of curiosity.”
Kruzeniski wrote that the “HIPA (Health Information Privacy Act) does not authorize using personal health information to satisfy one’s curiosity.”