Canada: Patient information cards sold at auction

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http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=5831dc77-c822-4f09-b606-3b8d24cdc28f

The Saskatoon Health Region apologized Tuesday after more than 2,000 
patient information cards that were supposed to be treated as "very 
confidential" were accidentally sold at an auction of health region 
surplus material rather than shredded.

The plastic cards are used to make imprints on documents for patient 
records. The cards contain names, dates of birth, addresses, religious 
affiliations, health card numbers and the names of the patient's doctor.

They were used between January and May of this year for day surgery 
patients and outpatients at City Hospital.

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