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Privacy commissioner questions security of health records after doctors die

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Dissent

Jennifer Graham of the Canadian Press reports:

Gary Dickson has seen abandoned medical records turn up in some pretty bizarre places in his time as Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner – mouldy basements, drafty Quonset huts, vacant buildings.

He argues that more needs to be done to protect sensitive, personal health information left behind when a doctor retires or dies. Increasingly across Canada, he says, no appropriate arrangements have been made to turn records over to another doctor or to an approved archive.

Read more on sympatico.ca.

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