Privacy watchdog flags digital health access rules

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As Ontario hammers out the fine print for regulations aimed at boosting patient access to digital health records, Information and Privacy Commissioner PATRICIA KOSSEIM is raising concerns that the latest proposal attempts to solve a problem “that may not exist.”

That’s because the change would specify that a patient has the right to acces…