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Canada Dashboard Digest | Kruzeniski: HIPA has ‘gaps’ needing fixing Related reading: Countries collaborate to combat rapid use of spyware 

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Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner Ron Kruzeniski is pushing to fix a “gap” in the Health Information Protection Act following a situation involving patient information and a photocopier, the Regina Leader-Post reports. An anonymous individual purchased a photocopier from an auction that possessed printed pages of personal health information from Midway Walk-in Healthcare Centre. The individual attempted to sell the information for $5,000. Kruzeniski said HIPA doesn’t apply to business owners of health facilities, adding the definition of a trustee needs to be expanded. “I find the situation extremely frustrating and concerning,” Kruzeniski wrote in a report. “To think that my personal health information was given to and collected by a physician, but when stored or processed, my personal health information did not have the protection of HIPA.”
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