CA Capital Health 2013 Technical Error (Q9085)
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A data breach risk event
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CA Capital Health 2013 Technical Error
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A data breach risk event
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January 2013
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Nova Scotia doctors are being warned about the risk posed by old fax numbers after a repeated breach of patient confidentiality in the Halifax area last fall. "We were alerted that a business person had been receiving faxes on a number that used to belong to a family physician," said John Gillis of Capital District Health Authority. The doctor had retired but the fax number remained in the laboratory database at Capital Health. The database automatically distributed lab test results to the number which had been reassigned to a business woman. "Much to her surprise she received patient information over the fax number," said Dr. Gus Grant, registrar and CEO of the Nova Scotia College of Physicians and Surgeons. The business woman contacted the college and Capital Health in September to (English)
