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PHIPA DECISION 200

PHIPA DECISION 200 … The complainant requested from St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton (the hospital) access to a complete copy of his file for a specified time period. The hospital initially denied the request in full, relying on sections 52(1)(e)(i) (harm to the requester or others) and …

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- Published on February 23, 2024

PHIPA DECISION 201

PHIPA DECISION 201 … This reconsideration decision addresses the complainant’s request to reconsider PHIPA Decision 141, in which the adjudicator found that the hospital conducted a reasonable search for responsive records. The complainant sought a reconsideration of PHIPA Decision 141 and made an …

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- Published on February 23, 2024

PHIPA DECISION 202

PHIPA DECISION 202 … During the course of working with this office on a privacy breach file, a Health Centre notified the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario that additional possible unauthorized accesses by a number of employees had been discovered. This file was opened to address the …

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- Published on February 23, 2024

PHIPA DECISION 203

PHIPA DECISION 203 … The complainant made a request under the Personal Health Information Protection Act to the custodian seeking copies of records containing her personal health information. In her complaint to the IPC, the complainant takes the position that the custodian deleted emails that …

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- Published on February 23, 2024

PHIPA DECISION 204

PHIPA DECISION 204 … A public hospital (the hospital) reported three separate privacy breaches under the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (the Act) to the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. Each breach involved unauthorized access to patients’ personal health …

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- Published on February 23, 2024

PHIPA DECISION 205

PHIPA DECISION 205 … Two health service provider organizations, one a health information custodian (the Custodian), and the other an organization contracted to deliver health care services on behalf of the Custodian (the Agent), both reported the same privacy breach under the Personal Health …

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- Published on February 23, 2024

PHIPA DECISION 206

PHIPA DECISION 206 … The complainant requested, under section 55(1) of the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA), that her former family physician (the physician) make corrections to a record of her personal health information, a progress note. The physician denied the correction …

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- Published on February 23, 2024

PHIPA DECISION 207

PHIPA DECISION 207 … In this decision the adjudicator finds that the complainant has established that the clinic has a duty to correct his records of personal health information and orders the clinic to do so by striking out the incorrect statements that the clinic had “saved images for future …

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- Published on February 23, 2024

PHIPA DECISION 208

PHIPA DECISION 208 … This complaint deals with an access decision made by the Kristus Darzs Latvian Home (the custodian) in response to a request made by an Estate Trustee for all records relating to her deceased father who had been a resident at the custodian’s facility. The custodian granted …

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- Published on February 23, 2024

PHIPA DECISION 209

PHIPA DECISION 209 … The complainant sought a review of a hospital’s decision to refuse her request, under the Personal Health Information Protection Act, to correct her records of personal health information that referred to her suffering from mental illness. The hospital refused the correction …

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- Published on February 23, 2024

PHIPA DECISION 210

PHIPA DECISION 210 … A public hospital notified the office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (the IPC) of a breach under the Personal Health Information Protection Act (the Act), as there had been a cyberattack against the hospital. After the hospital self-reported the breach, …

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- Published on February 23, 2024

PHIPA DECISION 211

PHIPA DECISION 211 … A complainant requested that a public hospital make his requested changes to certain hospital records concerning him, and to circulate those changes (or, in the alternative, a statement of his disagreement with the contents of the original records) to a list of individuals or …

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- Published on February 23, 2024

PHIPA DECISION 212

PHIPA DECISION 212 … This decision relates to a request made under PHIPA to Midland Gardens Care Community (the custodian) for access to video surveillance footage of an incident involving the complainant. The custodian refused access to the video, in its entirety. In this decision, the adjudicator …

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- Published on February 23, 2024

PHIPA DECISION 213

PHIPA DECISION 213 … This complaint concerns allegations that the respondent Sinai Health System (the hospital) and an affected person (a doctor who had privileges at the hospital at the relevant times) used and disclosed the complainant’s personal health information in violation of her withdrawal …

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- Published on February 23, 2024

PHIPA DECISION 214

PHIPA DECISION 214 … The complainant made an access request to a health information custodian under the Personal Health Information Protection Act (the Act) for his entire patient file. After reviewing the records provided by the custodian, he made a complaint to the IPC on the basis that further …

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- Published on February 23, 2024

PHIPA DECISION 215

PHIPA DECISION 215 … This reconsideration decision addresses the complainant’s request for reconsideration of PHIPA Decision 206. In that decision, the adjudicator upheld a physician’s refusal to make corrections to the complainant’s medical record based on section 55(9)(b) (professional opinion or …

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- Published on February 23, 2024

PHIPA DECISION 216

PHIPA DECISION 216 … The issue in this complaint is whether information withheld under the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (the Act) and the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) by Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care (Waypoint) in response to an access …

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- Published on February 23, 2024

PHIPA DECISION 217

PHIPA DECISION 217 … The complainant made a request to the Ottawa Fertility Clinic (the clinic) under PHIPA for the clinic’s complete paperwork regarding vials of donor sperm she had provided to the clinic for the purpose of fertility treatment. After examining the records released by the clinic, …

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- Published on February 23, 2024

PHIPA DECISION 218

PHIPA DECISION 218 … The complainant through his legal representative submitted an access request to Dr. Bohdan Pich Medicine Professional Corporation (the custodian). This decision determines that the custodian is deemed to have refused the complainant’s request for access. The custodian is …

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- Published on February 23, 2024

PHIPA DECISION 219

PHIPA DECISION 219 … The complainant made a request to Halton Healthcare Services (the custodian) under PHIPA for records containing her personal health information, including images taken from endoscopic ultrasound procedures. The complainant filed a complaint to the IPC claiming that additional …

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- Published on February 23, 2024