CLARIFICATION

A story on page A5 of the Friday, Aug. 10 Telegram under the headline “Fees for health records reduced after complaint file” was unclear on the timing between Eastern Health’s decision to reduce fees for the release of personal health information and recent recommendations from the province’s privacy commissioner to reduce such fees based on a complaint from a patient. Eastern Health reduced its fees for the release of personal health information prior to the release of the commissioner’s final report, and upon receipt of the commissioner’s final recommendations, Eastern Health further reduced its fees. As recommended by the commissioner, patients, executors or nextof-kin will be charged $25 for requests up to 50 pages. The commissioner’s office noted while it welcomed the progress Eastern Health was making with the fee reduction, the authority did not follow the commissioner’s recommendation of a 25-cent fee per page for any pages over 50. Eastern Health will instead charge people 50 cents per page for requests of more than 50 pages.