Susan Eng is Vice President for Advocacy at CARP, the national, non-partisan, non-profit organization committed to advocating for social change, http://www.carp.ca/. Jeff Curtis is the Chief Privacy Officer for Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, a 10,000+ employee acute-care, research and teaching hospital in Toronto, www.sunnybrook.ca. They discuss the question of who, if any one, in healthcare and hospitals now owns individuals’ electronic medical records, and what ownership actually means in various healthcare situations. They highlight privacy, its meaning, and its challenges in the world
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