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Employees at hospital found to be selling health records

June 18, 2014


Ann Cavoukian

SCARBOROUGH, Ont. – Ontario’s privacy commissioner, Ann Cavoukian (pictured), is now investigating the breach of as many as 8,300 patient records at Rouge Valley Health System in Scarborough, just east of Toronto. According to the hospital, two employees had been leaking the records to outside companies that were paying for the data. Read More

Employee snooped into records at Eastern Health

May 21, 2014


Beverley Clarke ST. JOHN’S, Nfld. & Labrador – Earlier this month, Eastern Health said an administrative employee breached privacy by prying into the files of about 20 clients. Beverley Clarke (pictured), vice-president of privacy for Eastern Health, said management was informed of the breach from another employee who performed due diligence and filed an occurrence report. Read More

BC privacy chief calls for new health information laws

May 7, 2014


Elizabeth Denham VICTORIA – The Government of British Columbia should enact a new health information privacy law that allows patients to reap the benefits of health innovation while also protecting privacy, says B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham (pictured). Read More

$11 million suit filed against Medicentres

March 19, 2014


CALGARY – Hundreds of Albertans have registered for a class-action law suit concerning a missing laptop that contained the personal and health information of 620,000 persons. The Calgary Herald reported that well-known class-action lawyer Clint Docken (pictured) of Docken & Co. expects those numbers to rise in the days ahead. A statement of claim was filed against Medicentres Canada in an Edmonton courtroom. Read More

Health records breach reported in New Brunswick

March 5, 2014


MONCTON, N.B. – Health officials in New Brunswick are investigating after they say a physician accessed personal patient information without authorization. The Vitalite Health Network says the alleged privacy breach took place at the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre in Moncton. Read More

Clayton asks minister to strengthen health privacy law

March 5, 2014


Jill Clayton

EDMONTON – Alberta’s privacy commissioner, Jill Clayton (pictured), has written to Health Minister Fred Horne formally requesting he strengthen provincial privacy legislation to include mandatory disclosure of all health information breaches. Read More

Alberta privacy commissioner investigates big breach

February 5, 2014


Jill Clayton

EDMONTON – Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner has confirmed that she will launch an investigation into the Medicentres privacy breach, as well as a broader review of the way breaches are reported in the health sector. Read More

Another health records breach reported in Alberta

February 5, 2014


EDMONTON – A briefcase containing personal information of patients and potential employees was stolen from Covenant Health, according to the organization’s chief quality and privacy officer. Read More

Former privacy boss calls for tougher rules

February 5, 2014


CALGARY – Alberta’s former privacy watchdog says it’s time to beef up the province’s personal information protection laws. Frank Work (pictured), who stepped down as Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner in 2011, says the recent breach of 620,000 records of Medicentres Canada patients is disheartening. Read More

Misdirected faxes still a problem in Saskatchewan

January 23, 2014


REGINA – Privacy commissioner Gary Dickson (pictured) has issued a report showing that that breaches of confidentiality continue to occur in Saskatchewan, when doctor’s offices and health regions fax personal health information to the wrong number. In one instance, detailed hormone therapy information of a transgender person was faxed to a school. Read More

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