This Workbook provides health information custodians with step-by-step guidance to assist health information custodians to report privacy breach statistics to the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario.
“There is nothing permanent except change.” - Heraclitus These famous words of the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, have never rung truer than they do today. As with everything else in life, the delivery of health care continues to change and evolve, especially over the last two decades, during which
This Guide provides an overview of requirements under the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 for the electronic health record, interoperability of digital health assets, electronic audit logs, consumer electronic service providers, and access to records in electronic format.
Today, I had the pleasure of presenting at the annual PHIPA Connections Summit. This year, the summit presenters explored emerging issues related to personal health information management in a pandemic. In my presentation, I shared some health sector statistics from 2020, touched on the recent
This guide provides health care providers with an overview of key requirements from the Personal Health Information Protection Act and some practical steps they should take to protect personal health information, particularly as they plan and deliver virtual health care.
Even before joining the IPC, I always admired Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) for its “gutsiness.” PHIPA introduced many novel concepts for its time. These include the first breach notification requirement in the country; a comprehensive code for consent and substitute
Today, the COVID Alert exposure notification app was launched as an important digital tool to be used among other public health measures, to help control the spread of COVID-19 in Ontario. I commend the robust safeguards the government has put in place to protect the privacy and security of
