Adam D. Krauss reports:

Two doctors who run the pathology lab at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital say they’ll soon be out of a job because WDH President and CEO Gregory Walker is punishing them after they discovered “massive and systematic violations of patients’ privacy” by a rogue hospital employee.

Dr. Cheryl Moore and Dr. Glen Littell, who run the contracted and independent Piscataqua Pathology Associates, laid out their case in a recent letter to members of the WDH board of trustees, explaining how the hospital is ending a 28-year relationship with their practice three years after they first became suspicious of the employee breaching patient privacy.

The breach took place between May 21, 2006, and June 29, 2007, at the hands of a hospital employee who improperly altered 1,500 reports and accessed them 1,847 times, according to a copy of the letter obtained by Foster’s.

WDH spokeswoman Noreen Biehl confirmed the employee was terminated when an audit revealed the employee was behind the problem, and she stressed patient safety was not compromised.

Read more on Fosters.com. The reporter describes some of the security aspects of the breach as well as the privacy implications.

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