Saskatchewan Doctor Faces Charges For Losing Patient Records

Medical Records Found In A DumpsterCTV and other sources report that a Saskatchewan doctor is facing charges for failing to safeguard patient medical records in his possession.

Saskatchewan's information and privacy commissioner is recommending that a Regina doctor be prosecuted after thousands of patient files and other sensitive documents were found in a recycling bin at a shopping mall earlier this year.

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Disaster Planning: Let CanDox Help Prepare Your Business To Recover After A Disaster

CanDox Can Help With Disaster PlanningA recent article in the Houston Chronicle highlighted again the importance of disaster planning for small businesses.

"It improves your chances of staying in the game," U.S. Small Business Administration spokeswoman Carol Chastang said of emergency preparedness planning. "Being able to reopen as quickly as possible, that's the key. The longer you stay closed, the bigger the chance of not recovering at all."

One study suggests that as many as 40% of small businesses involved in a major disaster never re-open.

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Records + Flooding = Disaster

Records Are Quickly Damaged by Water & FloodingRain.  Floods.  Spills.  Leaky pipes.  No matter how it happens, when water attacks your files and records, it spells disaster.  Of course proper storage and prevention are the best ways to keep water away from your records, but when the worst does happen, what must be done?

For us here in the Okanagan, both the Province of BC and the Ministry of Forests provide guidelines for action in the event of flooding and water damage to records.  In most scenarios, the physical recovery of the damaged records should be handled by a professional restoration company, but the most important steps are begun before they arrive:

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Disasters Highlight Need for Records Management

Grassfires are a threat in the OkanaganRecent floods and cyclones in Australia, and earthquakes in New Zealand, have highlighted for business managers everywhere to ensure that valuable business records are stored in modern, secure records management facilities.

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