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Ca: Hospital faces privacy probe

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Dissent

Kris Ketonen reports:

Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre is being investigated by the province‘s privacy commissioner after copies of medical records containing patient information turned up on north-side city streets last week.

The copies of pharmacy orders – containing the names of patients and their doctors, as well as prescription, allergy and progress information – were found blowing around on public streets near the former Port Arthur General Hospital, which is in the process of being torn down.

Read more in The Chronicle Journal.


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