Privacy & Security

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

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

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

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

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

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