Sent Patient Files To Strangers

A hospital has been faulted for breach of the Privacy Act for repeatedly faxing confidential patient records to strangers. It is the third serious privacy breach by health authorities in Saskatchewan in the past five months, including one case that ended in a recommendation that patients consider a class action lawsuit: “I told them to go to hell.”

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