Pamela Cowan reports:
It isn’t the first time confidential patient information has ended up in the wrong hands via e-mail — but Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner says safeguards can be low-tech and simple.
He was commenting after the office of his federal counterpart launched an investigation into how a Weyburn woman received a detailed and confidential psychiatric assessment of a long-term inmate at the Regional Psychiatric Centre in Saskatoon on her BlackBerry Tuesday morning.
The e-mail included details of the man’s offence against a child and his mental and medical conditions, the medication to treat his condition, plus his risk to reoffend.
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The Saskatoon Psychiatric Centre, which has 173 inmates, is operated by the Correctional Service of Canada.
Cathy Stocki, media relations officer with the CSC, confirmed Wednesday that the breach of privacy of patient information at the regional psychiatric centre was due to human error.
Read more in the Leader-Post.