Report: A Matter of Trust
A Review of NSHA’s Quiet Plan to Hand Control of Nova Scotians’ Health Information to an American Company A joint-report by CUPE and NSGEU. Download a copy of the full report with appendices: A Matter of Trust. Introduction Starting the week of November 24, NSHA senior managers arranged a series of conference calls with 91 staff who work in health records in 24 hospitals across Nova Scotia (Appendix A). The staff, who are members of both CUPE and the NSGEU, scan patient records converting them from paper to electronic documents. They then store and retrieve records as needed by physicians and clinicians. NSHA held eight calls over two weeks. The calls were all largely the same. The Director of Health Information Services at NSHA started by telling staff that no recordings were allowed. Staff were then told all their jobs were going to disappear in the New Year. Many of … Read more…
