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Ontario doctor fined for breaking privacy rules to offer circumcision services
Dr. Omar Afandi and WE Kidz Pediatrics clinic were fined a combined $12,500 for unauthorized access to newborn boys' health records to offer circumcision services.
- Dr. Omar Afandi and his WE Kidz Pediatrics clinic were ordered by Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner to pay fines of $5,000 and $7,500 respectively for improperly accessing and handling the health records of newborn boys.
- Afandi unlawfully accessed electronic health records in April and May 2024 to solicit circumcision services at his partly owned clinic.
- Afandi conducted 146 searches potentially involving 831 patients, contacted dozens of parents, and the clinic lacked any privacy management program.
- Commissioner Patricia Kosseim described the penalties as Canada’s first administrative monetary sanctions under new powers granted last year.
- The fines prompt WE Kidz to strengthen privacy policies and serve as a caution to health startups to ensure compliance before operating.
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windsornewstoday.caLocal paediatrician fined for wrongfully accessing records
A local paediatrician is facing a fine after he was found to be wrongfully accessing private health information of newborn baby boys from local hospitals.Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner fined Dr. Omar Afandi $5,000, and his clinic, WE Kidz $7,500, for the breach of records at Windsor Regional Hospital and the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance.The hospitals reported to the IPC that the doctor used his privileges to access shared electro…
Windsor kids' doctor fined $5K after accessing private health records of newborn boys to offer circumcisions
Ontario's privacy watchdog has fined a Windsor pediatrician found wrongfully accessing newborn boys' private hospital records to solicit circumcision services at his private clinic.
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Ontario doctor fined for breaking privacy rules to offer circumcision services
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Ontario doctor fined for breaking privacy rules to offer circumcision services – 105.9 The Region
Ontario’s information and privacy commissioner has ordered a Windsor doctor and his private clinic to pay thousands of dollars in fines for privacy breaches in a case she calls a “cautionary tale” for other health startups. Commissioner Patricia Kosseim wrote in a recent decision that a doctor with privileges at Windsor Regional Hospital used his electronic health record access there to look for parents of newborn boys and contact them to offer …
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