Every year, the Academic Hospital receives patients from more than 45 countries. Anne Nilsson is chief legal officer at Region Uppsala and she tells Dagens Nyheter that there are rules about not sending journals over open networks, but that at the time this happened, there was no function to encrypt the e-mail. It should now be introduced.
The Data Inspectorate will now investigate what support it has had to send patient data unencrypted. The authority also requires answers from Region Uppsala about whether they make systematic and recurring checks on the ability of unauthorized persons to access personal data.