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A potentially life-saving message for hospitals from Commissioner Cavoukian

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A potentially life-saving message for hospitals from Commissioner Cavoukian
Summary TORONTO – Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, has been so moved by an initiative by the World Health Organization (WHO) to enhance surgical safety that she is delivering a special message today to Ontario hospitals, with whom she has been working closely for the past five years, ever since the introduction of Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA).

On the same day that a leading forum sponsored by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute on patient safety and quality improvements opens in Toronto, the Commissioner is releasing a paper, Surgical Safety Checklist: A Must for Hospitals Performing Surgery, that links one of the key principles of information privacy – data accuracy – to the Surgical Safety Checklist developed by WHO and implemented by Toronto’s University Health Network (UHN), comprised of three major hospitals.
Published Date Apr 28, 2009


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