British Columbia Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham is urging the province to improve its health privacy laws and increase fines for those who snoop on private medical records, the Times Colonist reports. “It’s a significant issue of public trust when one or more individuals access electronic health records without authorization,” she said in an interview Wednesday. Her comments come in the wake of Island Health’s biggest privacy breach to date. Denham added, “The public needs to be assured that the staff will take their confidential requirements seriously and that there will be serious sanctions and penalties when they fail to do so.”
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