David Jenson, a spokesperson for the Ontario Health Ministry, said shared electronic health records are key to the transformation of health-care delivery in the province, because they can result in more efficient and higher quality care. Last month, a nurse from North Bay was reprimanded for professional misconduct after she was found to have improperly accessed the personal health records of almost 6,000 patients. That’s why five of the six snooping cases that have ever been referred to the attorney general for breaking the province’s health privacy legislation have occurred on Beamish’s watch, he said. But Stewart also called for greater consistency in how hospitals and health organizations patrol their electronic patient file systems to weed out improper access. Since tracking of access began in 2011, Trillium has conducted 363 privacy education sessions with doctors and staff.

Source: thestar July 04, 2016 23:26 UTC