Saskatchewan Privacy Commissioner Gary Dickson and the Ministry of Health are taking steps to prevent health information “from ending up in the wrong hands,” Brandon Sun reports. Dickson has issued guidelines advising, for example, what those in the healthcare field should do to address incidents where information is sent or received in error. “For a number of years, after we went through the work in 2009 and 2010, I think we had assumed that most trustees in Saskatchewan had got the message and in fact had implemented those kinds of policies and procedures we'd recommended," Dickson said, adding, “It appears now, just reflecting on the number of breaches that we're investigating, that confidence was misplaced.”
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