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Saskatoon health region probes release of hospital cards
It is shocking that Sasatoon’s health region has their blue cards sold in some auctions for money. Recently a saskatoon man went to an auction and purchased a big box full of personal health information. The iteams came in thousands of blue plastic hospital cards with many personal/ private information, including names, adresses, health status, etc. With that box many people’s personal health information said to be protected was leacked out to some stranger.
After the auction the man then gave the box labeled as recycled, to a local saskatchewan party MLA. After that it was returned to saskatoon health region. Sask. Party MLA Don Morgan said Tuesday that “people have the right to expect that their personal health information will be protected”, but after this incidant, that right was violated. “The case raises serious questions”, he said. "Does the regional health authority have good processes and good procedures in place?" asked Morgan. "[Are] there policies that will prevent this from happening in the future?" I think that the health authority should take this more seriously as it is important to everyone. It is also a serious problem to the information security as this happened I think that many of the citizens would not want to keep their records in those hospitals etc.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2007/05/29/saskatoon-cards.html