A medical laboratory technician has been found guilty of professional misconduct after accessing the laboratory records of a colleague and sharing the information with other colleagues.
The woman, whose name and place of work were suppressed, accessed and viewed the electronic laboratory records of a colleague without authorisation in May last year, according to a Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal decision released today.
The practitioner and medical laboratory scientist had been discussing whether another colleague might be pregnant because she had been checking her computer and had written on the staff break sheet that she was going for a blood test.
The practitioner then accessed the woman's laboratory records on the work computer and found that she was waiting on results for an ante-natal screen blood test to confirm whether she was pregnant.
She then told a number of staff about the tests saying, "guess who's pregnant?"