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AI in Ontario's Health Sector

A presentation by Nicole Minutti, Senior Health Policy Advisor, on the use and regulation of AI in Ontario's health sector. Presented to the AMS-Fitzgerald Fellowship on AI.

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- Published on Apr 2, 2025

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S4-Episode 11: The best of season 4

In this special retrospective episode of Info Matters, Commissioner, Patricia Kosseim revisits season four’s standout conversations. Highlights include junior high students' views on privacy, Cynthia Khoo on facial recognition, and Robert Fabes on how people experiencing homelessness perceive...

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- Published on Feb 12, 2025

Ensuring secure disposal of health records: Out of sight is not out of mind!

Case of Note: PHIPA Decision 266 Background A complaint was brought to the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) alleging that a health clinic had failed to securely dispose of records of personal health information (PHI). To support the allegations, photographs of patient records
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- Published on Feb 10, 2025

IPC Comments on the transfer of the Critical Care Information System from Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation to Ornge

IPC comments on proposed amendments to Ontario Regulation 329/04 to support the transfer of the Critical Care Information System from Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation to Ornge, and to maintain the practices and procedures to ensure continued protection of personal health information during the
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- Published on Feb 6, 2025

Lost and found: Preserving abandoned health records

Case of Note: PHIPA Decision 221 (interim) and PHIPA Decision 230 (final) Background The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) was contacted about a case of potentially abandoned medical records at a storage facility. The report came from a property management company that was acting
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- Published on Jan 7, 2025

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AI in the Health Sector: Privacy Considerations for Health Information Custodians When Developing, Procuring, Implementing, and Using AI Technologies

This presentation introduces the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) in the health sector, provides an overview of relevant obligations under PHIPA, and include a summary of the risks that health information custodians should be aware of when engaging with AI technologies. The presentation...

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- Published on Dec 4, 2024

Commissioners publish 2020 investigation report into LifeLabs privacy breach affecting millions of Canadians

The report was published after the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed Lifelabs’ bid to block public release of the report TORONTO, ON — Ontario and British Columbia Information and Privacy Commissioners have published the 2020 investigation report into the LifeLabs privacy breach affecting millions...
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- Published on Nov 25, 2024

Preventing health privacy breaches: Why training, policies, and confidentiality agreements matter

Case of Note: PHIPA Decision 260 Background A public hospital was alerted to suspicious activity on a patient chart, and initiated an investigation, which included a targeted audit. The audit revealed that nearly 4,000 patient charts had been accessed by a physician without authorization, from a
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- Published on Nov 18, 2024

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Privacy Considerations for AI in the Health Sector

Provided to the "alPHa Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Public Health," this presentation provides an overview of the obligations and some of the privacy considerations for health information custodians related to the development, maintenance, procurement, implementation, and use Artificial...

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- Published on Nov 6, 2024

Commissioner’s letter to the Ministry of Health about proposed regulatory amendments under the Personal Health Information Protection Act

In her letter, Commissioner Kosseim recommends that the m inistry reconsider its proposal to better facilitate Ontarians’ easy and meaningful access to their records in the provincial Electronic Health Record. The commissioner also recommends that the m inistry carefully consider transparency and
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- Published on Sep 9, 2024