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HAWKESBURY RESIDENTS SPEAK OUT ABOUT A PRIVACY BREACH AT HGH
ALEXIA MARSILLO alexia.marsillo@eap.on.ca
Two Hawkesbury residents have been notified of unauthorized access of their personal health information by employees at the Hawkesbury General Hospital. Chantal Tomchishen and Chantal Groleau both received letters from the Hawkesbury General Hospital (HGH), dated January 23, 2019, informing them of a privacy breach investigation regarding their personal health information. The letters, signed by Imrana Jeoffrey, Vice-President of Ambulatory Care, Quality and Performance and Chief Privacy Officer at HGH, stipulates that “there was no legitimate reason for this access to your personal health information as this employee was not part of your circle of care.” Unauthorized access to Tomchishen’s information was conducted by Line Franche, an employee of the hospital. Tomchishen has hired a lawyer and intends to take legal action regarding this matter. “I want to make sure that these employees are never again allowed to work anywhere with access to health care files,” said Tomchishen. “Our goal in going public with this is that it will give others that received this letter the courage to come forward as well,” added Groleau. The two women are also in the process of filing an official privacy complaint with the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. “The fact is we just don’t know what the reason or the motivation was behind
Deux résidentes de Hawkesbury ont été avisées d’un accès non autorisé à leurs renseignements personnels sur la santé par des employés de l’Hôpital Général de Hawkesbury. Chantal Tomchishen et Chantal Groleau ont toutes deux reçu des lettres de l’Hôpital Général de Hawkesbury (HGH), datées du 23 janvier 2019, les informant d’une enquête sur une atteinte à la vie privée concernant leurs renseignements médicaux personnels. —photo fournie
At press time, the Hawkesbury General Hospital had not returned our request for comment. “In order to prevent further privacy breaches, HGH will also be reviewing its policies and providing further training to staff throughout the organization,” stated the letters sent to Groleau and Tomchishen.
doing this, and that’s what we want to figure out and make sure this doesn’t happen again to anyone,” said Groleau. Tomchishen, on her part, voiced her DPODFSOBCPVUUIFQPTTJCJMJUZPGGSBVEi8F don’t know the extent of this breach,” she said. “The more information you have about someone, the easier it is for the possibilities of fraud or scamming.”
Erratum: Errors were made in the original version of this article, printed on February 27, 2019. In fact, the personal health information of Ronald Groleau was inappropriately accessed by Jenna Groleau, an employee of the hospital. We apologize for the error.
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