CA Alberta Health Services Aug 2013 Technical Error (Q10903)
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A data breach risk event
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CA Alberta Health Services Aug 2013 Technical Error
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A data breach risk event
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August 2013
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Home care client gets another patients personal information Alberta Health Services is investigating a privacy breach after an Edmonton home care patient received another persons health information in his file. John Grierson regularly gets a health report delivered to his house by CBI Home Health. Recently, his report contained information that he wasnt supposed to see documents with another patients personal information including their condition, treatment plan and health care number. I was quite surprised, Grierson said. I showed it to my wife who said, Thats a disaster! You should get in touch with somebody about that. So Grierson contacted CBI Home Health and Alberta Health Services, which have since launched their own investigations. Human error likely to blame Grierson finds the pri (English)
