Dr. Omar Afandi used his electronic health record access privileges at Windsor Regional Hospital to look for parents of newborn boys to solicit their business, Ontario’s information and privacy commissioner wrote in a report.

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 circumcisions at a clinic he partly owns.

Kosseim writes that Dr. Omar Afandi has acknowledged his wrongdoing and is remo

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