Canada's Privacy Commissioners passed a joint resolution calling on governments, health sector institutions, and health providers to phase out the use of fax and unencrypted email for communicating personal health information “as soon as reasonably possible”. The Commissioners also urge stakeholders to amend laws and regulations to further provide for meaningful … [Read more...] about Securing Public Trust in Digital Healthcare
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Covid App Closure
The AB TraceTogether app will be decommissioned on June 23, 2022. Temporary User IDs that have been exchanged via Bluetooth with other phones running the App are stored locally on users' phones and cleared after 21 days. Alberta Health's Information Management Branch has confirmed that "information that has been collected from the App by Alberta Health and Alberta Health … [Read more...] about Covid App Closure
