I might just add that when I was in Saskatchewan, overseeing health trustees and their management of personal health information, it was surprising how often you would find inactive health files in a granary, left behind in an abandoned office. You had providers retiring and so on never having properly disposed records. Often the problem with abandoned health records is these would be records that weren't active treatment and they should have been destroyed. There should have been a record retention schedule. It certainly brought home the importance and the value of not only having an appropriate record retention schedule, but then following that, and destroying those records in a timely way when they're no longer required. It's been a significant issue right across Canada, particularly with health records, as physicians retire not having properly disposed of the records at appropriate times.
On February 14th, 2017. See this statement in context.