New frontiers for electronic health records and research databases - Alberta's Bill 52: submission of the Health Law Institute on Bill 52.

• Author: Bailey, Tracey M.

Intended to "bring the Health Information Act up to 2008 standards with the advent of technology," Bill 52, Alberta's Health Information Amendment Act, was introduced, and referred to the Legislative Assembly's Standing Committee on Health, late last November. (1) Invitations for oral presentations, then written submissions, followed. By May of this year, by the time the policy field committee's proposed amendments were tabled and accepted, the concerns of no fewer than sixty-nine groups and individuals had been heard. (2) Those of the Health Law...