Viewing articles in the ‘Privacy & Security’ topic.
October 23, 2019
EDMONTON – Reports of privacy breaches in the healthcare sector have soared in Alberta since new provincial regulations requiring mandatory reporting were put in place, according to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC).
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October 8, 2019
TORONTO – Hackers have crippled the computer systems of three Ontario hospitals in recent weeks, prompting concern about the type of malicious software used and whether more facilities may be at risk.
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October 8, 2019
TORONTO – If you are a healthcare risk manager, privacy officer, director of care/professional practice, a lawyer advising on privacy and information management issues, nurse or nurse educator, it is critical that you have a current understanding of the key issues and how to deal with them. Or, if you are involved in healthcare IT or software, you should be able to understand the complex regulatory web and your clients’ needs.
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October 8, 2019
EDMONTON – An office assistant has been fined for snooping into two people’s health records while she was an employee at a southwest Edmonton medical clinic. In September, Glenda Garcia admitted in provincial court that she looked at the data on numerous occasions without a valid reason, which is a violation of the Health Information Act (HIA).
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September 11, 2019
YELLOWKNIFE, NT – A group of law firms plans to file a statement of claim with the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories, and launch a representative action on behalf of thousands of people who suffered a loss of personal health information.
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September 11, 2019
CALGARY – A physician working at Calgary’s Richmond Road Diagnostic and Treatment Centre is notifying approximately 7,000 Albertans that the security of their personal health information may have been compromised due to the criminal hacking of a personal Gmail account.
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September 11, 2019
TORONTO – If your work involves the protection of information, this program is essential. Designed to help you better understand and respond to a data breach incident, this program focuses on practical, real world scenarios with hands-on learning.
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June 26, 2019
HALIFAX – Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) is in the process of sending out notifications to 2,841 patients and next of kin about a potential privacy breach regarding personal health information.
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April 29, 2019
When a zero-day virus hit Health Sciences North in Sudbury, Ontario, earlier this year, HSN and 21 hospitals put their main electronic medical records on downtime to avoid further contamination. No data was corrupted and there was no privacy breach, but it did lead to a slowdown in a number of departments until the issue was resolved four days later. Read More
April 10, 2019
VANCOUVER – The personal health information of about 34,000 medical marijuana patients was accessed in a data breach of an electronic medical record system used by Sunniva Inc.’s Natural Health Services (NHS) Ltd. subsidiary.
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