- Affected Users: Staff responsible for maintaining patient files and ensuring patient confidentiality.
- Task Affected: Updating patient files and safeguarding patient confidentiality.
- Impact: In some provinces, patients are legally considered adults at a certain age and assume responsibility for their own files. Despite efforts to update files and remove parental access, this process can sometimes be overlooked. This oversight could lead to breaches of confidentiality, such as parents receiving notifications about appointments or results without the patient's consent, especially if the patient did not request the changes.
- Current State: There is no notification system in place to alert users that a patient has reached adulthood the first time their file is accessed.
– Competition consideration: N/A