Hospital employee snooped in 98 patient records, Saskatchewan privacy commissioner finds

According to Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner Grace Hession David, a hospital employee at the Dr. F.H. Wigmore Regional Hospital accessed their own health records and the records of 98 other people on 102 occasions between July 2024 and June 2025.

The unit clerk in the emergency department is said to have snooped on sensitive information and, in at least two cases, shared what they learned with others, including telling a co-worker and texting a family member about another relative being admitted to hospital.

The commissioner highlighted that the authority did not suspend the employee’s access quickly enough, allowed access for longer than necessary after warning signs appeared, and did not have a proactive audit system that might have detected the snooping earlier. The breach has been described as involving insider access to health data rather than external hacking. For further details, readers were directed to SwiftCurrentOnline for additional reporting on the decision.