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If you don’t live in Canada, you might not know that LifeLabs has a virtual monopoly on the lab business. If your doctor wants you to take a blood test, you go
by ttul 7y ago
If you don’t live in Canada, you might not know that LifeLabs has a virtual monopoly on the lab business. If your doctor wants you to take a blood test, you go to LifeLabs.
Whomever broke into their systems knows a great deal about the private health information of a large fraction of Canadians.
- jkaplowitz 7y agoDo they perform some back-office analysis function for Quebec's public health system, or is this get another way Quebec is different from the rest of Canada? Here in Quebec we generally get our blood drawn for tests at a local public clinic called a CLSC, and can eventually view the results in a public government web system, but I'm not sure where the actual analysis happens.
- allo37 7y agoIn my experience, the CLSC sends your blood to a nearby hospital's lab for testing. We also have CDL which does private testing.
- jkaplowitz 7y agoMakes sense. So not LifeLabs either way?
- rkagerer 7y agoNew title: All your medical lab results are belong to us
- smnrchrds 7y agoFrom their website, it looks like they only operate in Ontario and BC, perhaps Saskatchewan. I certainly haven't seen one here in Alberta, unless they operate under a different name.
- Consultant32452 7y agoIn the US this title seems to be held by Quest diagnostics.