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   From: ConsRCons@govt.cda   
      
   These information files don't get stolen for the helluvit . . .  those   
   health card numbers are about to be duplicated and Albertans are going   
   to find themselves paying for the health care of foreigners in their   
   healthcare system.  Guaranteed.   
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   Published Wednesday, Jan. 22 2014   
      
   EDMONTON — The Canadian Press   
      
   Stolen laptop held 620,000 Albertans' personal health data   
      
      
   Alberta’s Health Minister is calling for an investigation after the   
   theft of a laptop containing the personal health information of 620,000   
   people.   
      
   Fred Horne says he was informed Tuesday by Medicentres Family Health   
   Care Clinics that the laptop contained names, dates of birth, provincial   
   health card numbers, billing codes and diagnostic codes.   
      
   He says the theft last September was reported to Edmonton police and the   
   province’s privacy commissioner.   
      
   Horne says he wants the commissioner to officially investigate to find   
   out what happened, why health authorities weren’t told right away and   
   what privacy breaches may have occurred.   
      
   He says he has also contacted the College of Physicians and Surgeons and   
   the Alberta Medical Association so that they can take any steps they   
   deem necessary.   
      
   The Health Minister says he is “extremely disappointed” that it has   
   taken this long for the theft to be brought to the government’s attention.   
      
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