UPDATE: Source has been found, says privacy commissioner
UPDATE: The office of the Privacy Commissioner says the source of the dumping of health records into recycling has been found and the matter is still being investigated.
Someone in Prince Albert is dumping paper copies of health records into the recycling and is being asked to stop immediately.
Diane Aldridge of the Privacy Commissioner’s office reached out to paNOW to alert whoever is doing it to cease immediately.
“The waste truck had come in and dumped some recycling and mixed in with the regular recycling was patient records, which of course causes alarm because of course we want to protect patient health information” said Aldridge.