{"id":2887,"date":"2020-01-16T16:31:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T23:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corridorweb.wpengine.com\/?page_id=2887"},"modified":"2022-11-14T23:20:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T06:20:21","slug":"privacy-alberta-refresher","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/corridorinteractive.com\/online-training\/privacy-awareness-in-healthcare\/privacy-awareness-alberta\/privacy-alberta-refresher\/","title":{"rendered":"Refresher Training: Privacy Awareness in Health Care – Alberta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Refresher Training: Privacy Awareness in Health Care – Alberta <\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Protect Patients. Ensure Privacy. Educate Employees.<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n“Former Healthcare Worker Fined, Banned from Accessing Health Information”\n<\/span><\/span>A former billing clerk with Alberta Health Services was fined $8,000 and sentenced to one year of probation with conditions after pleading guilty in Red Deer Provincial Court to knowingly accessing health information in contravention of HIA. One of the probation conditions was for the individual to not be employed in a position that gives him access to health information for one year. Of the 13 convictions for unauthorized access to health information, this was the second case in which one of the conditions was for the convicted not to access health information for one year.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\n\n\n

October 9, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\n“Health Information Breaches Result in Conviction of Clinic Employee”\n<\/span><\/span>A medical office assistant pleaded guilty in Edmonton Provincial Court to knowingly accessing health information of two individuals on numerous occasions in contravention of HIA on September 26, 2019. The judge issued a $3,500 fine, plus a victim fine surcharge of $525.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\n\n\n

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\n\n“Unauthorized Accesses of Health Information Lead to Eleventh Conviction”<\/span><\/span>A former billing clerk with Alberta Health Services pleaded guilty in Red Deer Provincial Court to illegally accessing health information of 52 Albertans under HIA on August 21, 2019. The judge issued a $5,000 fine and ordered the individual not to access health information for one year. The unauthorized accesses occurred in Red Deer.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\n\n\n

August 29, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n“Lab Assistant Fined for Snooping on Health Information”\n<\/span><\/span>A lab assistant with Calgary Laboratory Services (CLS) pleaded guilty to and was fined $3,500 for accessing health information in violation of the Health Information Act (HIA) on January 15, 2019. The lab assistant was found to have inappropriately accessed the health records of 11 Albertans between July 18, 2016 and September 5, 2017. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\n\n\n

January 22, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n

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