A former Belleville nurse has been charged with 69 offences by the OPP in connection with the “unauthorized use of personal health information” at Belleville General Hospital in 2018.
Members of the Health Fraud Investigation Unit were called in in 2018, after an internal investigation by Quinte Health Care found privacy breaches within the hospital’s patient records system.
HFIU investigators believe the nurse illegally accessed patients’ personal health information on a number of occasions over a six month period.
Fifty-nine-year-old Kimberley Ann Hokkanen, of Centre Hastings, is charged with breaching the Personal Health Information Protection Act and will appear in court on September 3 to answer to the charges.
At the time of the incidents, QHC CEO Mary Clare Egberts believed that nothing criminal had occurred and that there was an assumption that no personal data had been shared.
QHC had said the person in question had been fired after the internal investigation.
OPP did not release any other details when the charges were announced on Tuesday.
