More than 11,000 patients at the Brampton Civic Hospital have received letters from their health-care provider, providing notice that a hospital employee inappropriately used their personal information to access medication over a number of years. According to one patient’s letter, obtained by the Star, “an employee selected your name and patient identification number on the computer screen of an electronic device that is used to dispense medication.”It also states that, after an internal investigation, the employee no longer works at the hospital, and has been charged by Peel Regional Police. The letter, dated Aug. 2, was sent by Ann Ford, the chief privacy officer at William Osler Health System — a hospital system that serves 1.3 million residents of Brampton, Etobicoke, and surrounding communities. Ford writes that the medical records of patients that were affected have been corrected for accuracy. “Your chart showed that this medication was dispensed for you and administered to you, but there is no record in the chart that shows that the physician ordered it,” states the letter.

Source: thestar November 28, 2017 22:58 UTC