Alberta is the first Province in Canada that has gone into Electronic Health Records in a big way. Other Provinces will eventually follow, Ontario is delayed for some time because of scandals over consultants, but that's another story.
11,000 health records have been compromised by a virus entering the Alberta Electronic Health Care Computer System. Apparently the virus was on the system for two weeks without detection.
Alberta Health Care claims the Core Flood Virus was modified, making it difficult to detect. They also said that they cannot guarantee that it will not happen again.
Core Flood is a seven year old program that downloads information onto a server in Southern Russia. The program seeks primarily financial information, passwords, etc.
Alberta Health Services claims that no financial data was on these files. Employees that used the Alberta Health Services Computer to do bank transactions may be in trouble.
This should open up the debate about Electronic Health Records again.
More on Core Flood here
The personal health information of thousands of Albertans was skimmed from the Alberta Health Services Edmonton network in May as a computer virus infected the network.
Alberta Health Services has sent letters to the 11,582 people whose information may have been captured by the virus between May 14 and May 29.
Notification has been sent by mail and should be received within the next seven business days.
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