International Law

Patient files found in vacant Saskatchewan office space

By David T.S. Fraser

Not good ...

Patient files found in vacant Yorkton office space:

"REGINA -- Hundreds of patient files have been discovered in a vacant Yorkton office space, prompting an investigation by the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner.

An anonymous complaint tipped the commissioner's office to the presence of five large boxes containing what appears to be physician records for as many as 800 or 900 patients in the Yorkton region, Commissioner Gary Dickson said Monday...."

Full post as published by The Canadian Privacy Law Blog on March 25, 2008 (boomark / email).