A hospital employee’s unauthorized access to a patient’s records led to a premature, distressing cancer diagnosis, highlighting severe privacy violations and the profound personal harm caused by medical data breaches.
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Pippa Boardman said she lost her dignity through data breach at Royal Cornwall hospital by man she barely knewA woman was told she had cancer by a hospital employee she barely knew who had accessed her medical records days before she was due to receive test results from her consultant.Pippa Boardman said she lost her dignity and privacy through the data breach at the Royal Cornwall hospital in Truro. Continue reading...
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