Tseung Kwan O Hospital personnel accessing client info without authorisation and dripping clients’ details
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The following is released on behalf of the Hospital Authority:
The Tseung Kwan O Hospital (TKOH) revealed a case of personnel non-compliance and unlawfully accessing and dripping clients’ info. Subsequent examination performed by the health center exposed that there were unauthorised access to a client’s individual info (consisting of address and telephone number), and believed that internal files including other clients’ details were incorrectly dripped to a 3rd party without authorisation. The healthcare facility was extremely worried and has actually right away reported the case to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data. As the occurrence might include criminal offenses and breaching expert conduct, the healthcare facility chose to report to the cops and report to the Medical Council of Hong Kong. The health center will completely comply with the examination.
The Hospital Authority (HA) has actually constantly connected utmost value to the expert conduct of personnel and strictly needs all personnel to comply with the Code of Conduct of the HA, securing clients’ rights, maintaining expert stability and keeping public’s rely on medical professionalism.
The representative of TKOH stresses that scientific records issue client’s personal privacy, details gotten by personnel in accordance with their post as authorised to utilize the Clinical Management System of HA ought to just be utilized for authorised functions. Personnel are restricted to gain access to client’s individual details, along with to divulge to external celebrations unless with previous approval.
Under no scenarios must staff usage such info or records to get individual gains, infringe on others’ rights or for unauthorised individual functions. The health center will not endure personnel accessing client’s details for unauthorised non-clinical functions and poorly divulge client’s details to 3rd parties. The healthcare facility stresses that such acts will seriously impinge upon expert stability and doctor-patient relationship, and potentially breaching the law, in addition to expert conduct. If abnormalities and crimes are discovered after examination, strict actions will be taken.