Tag: Health
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Fact Sheet #07 – Disclosure of Information Permitted in Emergency or other Urgent Circumstances
Date: Jul 01 2005 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Fact Sheet #06 – Reporting Requests under PHIPA
Revised October 2012
Date: Apr 01 2005 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Fact Sheet #04 – Fundraising under PHIPA
Revised Sept. 2014.
Date: Apr 01 2005 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Fact Sheet #02 – Your health information – Your access and correction rights
Date: Jan 01 2005 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Fact Sheet #01 – Safeguarding Personal Health Information
Date: Jan 01 2005 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Authorization to Act as an Agent For A Complaint under the Personal Health Information Protection Act
A form to be signed by a complainant who is represented by someone other than a lawyer.
Date: Jul 11 2005 Type: Resource Access: Public
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Request to Access Personal Health Information (PHIPA)
A generic request form for filing a request for access to your personal health information held by a health information custodian. This request form should be submitted directly to the health information custodian.
Date: Jan 01 2005 Type: Resource Access: Public
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Request to Correct Personal Health Information (PHIPA)
A generic request form for filing a request to correct your personal health information held by a health information custodian. This request form should be submitted directly to the health information custodian.
Date: Oct 03 2005 Type: Resource Access: Public
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Access and Correction Complaints – Personal Health Information Protection Act
This brochure provides information on complaints about access or correction of personal health information under PHIPA.
Date: Dec 16 2004 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Collection, Use, Disclosure and Other Complaints – Personal Health Information Protection Act
This brochure provides information about collection, use, disclosure and other complaints under PHIPA.
Date: Dec 01 2004 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Frequently Asked Questions: Health Cards and Health Numbers
Our frequently asked questions on health cards and health numbers clarify who may collect, use or disclose health numbers for health care purposes, as well as the use of health cards as a proof of identity. Originally published November 2004.
Date: Oct 01 2021 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Frequently Asked Questions: Personal Health Information Protection Act
This revised FAQ has a new look and feel and has been rewritten with cleaner, easy to understand, gender-neutral language. Also included are a few additions to the original publication: Questions on assumed implied consent and consent from children under 16. Questions regarding the relationship ...
Date: Nov 02 2015 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Fact Sheet #09 – Long-term Care Homes: Consent and Access under the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004
Date: Oct 01 2005 Type: Resource Access: Both
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A Guide to the Personal Health Information Protection Act
This guide is a tool to help health information custodians understand their rights and obligations under the Personal Health Information Protection Act, (PHIPA).
Date: Dec 01 2004 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Fact Sheet #11- Health Information Custodians Working for Non-Health Information Custodians
Date: Feb 01 2006 Type: Resource Access: Both
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The Personal Health Information Protection Act and Your Privacy
[Revised February 2019]
Date: Oct 01 2004 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Privacy Impact Assessment Guidelines for the Ontario Personal Health Information Protection Act
Date: Oct 16 2005 Type: Resource Access: Both
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RFID and Privacy: Guidance for Health-Care Providers
RFID and Privacy: Guidance for Health-Care Providers. RFID technology can help save lives – and preserve privacy.
Date: Jan 23 2008 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Circle of Care: Sharing Personal Health Information for Health-Care Purposes
This document was thoroughly reviewed and updated in August, 2015, introducing clear and easy to understand gender-neutral language. Updated: August 2015
Date: Aug 16 2015 Type: Resource Access: Both
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A Positive-Sum Paradigm in Action in the Health Sector
Health information custodians frequently rely on de-identification when using or disclosing health information – a measure that can protect individual privacy, but often at the expense of data quality (zero-sum paradigm). Dr. Khaled El Emam, a senior investigator at the Children’s Hospital of...
Date: Mar 30 2010 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Fact Sheet #16 – Health-Care Requirement for Strong Encryption
The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner, in Order HO-004 and Order HO-007, required that health information be safeguarded at all times, specifically by ensuring that any personal health information stored on any mobile devices (e.g., laptops, memory sticks, PDAs) be strongly encry...
Date: Jul 16 2010 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Fact Sheet #17 – Applying PHIPA and FIPPA/MFIPPA to Personal Health Information
The purpose of this Fact Sheet is to provide organizations that are defined as both health information custodians under the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) and institutions under public sector privacy and access to information legislation, namely the provincial Freedom of Infor...
Date: Apr 19 2011 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Applying PHIPA and FIPPA to Personal Health Information: Guide for Hospitals
Date: Apr 20 2011 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Fact Sheet #18 – Secure Transfer of Personal Health Information
In Order HO-011, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) ordered Cancer Care Ontario to discontinue its practice of transferring records of personal health information relating to its colon cancer screening program in paper format, after several courier packages containing the p...
Date: Aug 01 2012 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Dispelling the Myths Under the Personal Health Information Protection Act
There are many myths surrounding how information may be collected, used and disclosed under the Personal Health Information Protection Act. Working with our partners in the health care community, we have created this one-page document to dispel some of the more common myths.
Date: Sep 28 2012 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Detecting and Deterring Unauthorized Access to Personal Health Information
Unauthorized access continues to be a growing problem in the health sector in Ontario. The province’s Personal Health Information Protection Act, (PHIPA), permits health information custodians (HIC) to collect, use and disclose personal health information for the purposes of providing or assist...
Date: Jan 28 2015 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Safeguarding Privacy on Mobile Devices
A brochure outlining suggested best practices for securing mobile devices (PDAs, laptops, etc.) and protecting the information carried out of the workplace on them. Steps are organized into sections: Before you Walk out of the Workplace, While you are Out and When You have Completed Your Work. In...
Date: Jun 14 2007 Type: Resource Access: Professional
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Submission of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario to the Standing Committee on Justice Policy on Bill 119
Submission of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario to the Standing Committee on Justice Policy on Bill 119: The Health Information Protection Act, 2015. Brian Beamish Commissioner March 3, 2016
Date: Mar 03 2016 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Manual for the Review and Approval of Prescribed Persons and Prescribed Entities
The Manual for the Review and Approval of Prescribed Persons and Prescribed Entities outlines the process followed by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario in reviewing the practices and procedures implemented by prescribed persons and prescribed entities to protect the privacy and ...
Date: Jan 19 2024 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Fact Sheet: Communicating Personal Health Information by Email
This fact sheet describes the risks of using email and custodians’ obligations under the Personal Health Information Protection Act. It outlines some of the technical, physical and administrative safeguards needed to protect personal health information when communicating by email and the polici...
Date: Sep 15 2016 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Submission to the Standing Committee on the Legislative Assembly on Bill 41, Patients First Act, 2016
This submission addresses the privacy implications of the proposed Bill. The goal of our recommendations is to enhance the protection of personal health information of Ontarians.
Date: Nov 23 2016 Type: Resource Access: Both
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PHIPA Practice Direction #1: Clarifying Access Requests
Date: Feb 28 2017 Type: Resource Access: Both
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PHIPA Practice Direction #3: Publicly Released Decisions Under the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004
Date: Feb 01 2017 Type: Resource Access: Both
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PHIPA Practice Direction #4: Access/Correction Complaint Form
Date: Feb 28 2017 Type: Resource Access: Both
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PHIPA Practice Direction #5: Collection, Use, and Disclosure Complaint Form
Date: Feb 28 2017 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Code of Procedure for Matters under the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004
PHIPA Code of Procedure
Date: Feb 28 2017 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Collection, Use and Disclosure Complaint Form (PHIPA)
Date: Feb 28 2017 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Reporting a Privacy Breach to the IPC: Guidelines for the Health Sector
Date: Sep 17 2019 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Annual Reporting of Privacy Breach Statistics to the Commissioner – Requirements for the Health Sector
Date: Nov 10 2017 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Responding to a Health Privacy Breach: Guidelines for the Health Sector
This publication replaces the guidance document, What to do When Faced With a Privacy Breach: Guidelines for the Health Sector. This new, updated guide highlights the importance of having a detailed privacy breach protocol and explains the steps to take in responding to a breach under Ontario’s...
Date: Oct 04 2018 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Dispelling Some Myths about the Personal Health Information Protection Act
Date: Feb 15 2019 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Avoiding Abandoned Health Records: Guidance for Health Information Custodians Changing Practice
Date: Feb 26 2019 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Comments of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario on Bill 74
Date: Mar 29 2019 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Succession Planning to Help Prevent Abandoned Records
Date: Apr 15 2019 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Accessing Your Deceased Relative’s Personal Information
Date: Apr 24 2019 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Comments of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario on Proposed Regulation under PHIPA with respect to the Health Data Platform
Date: Jul 06 2020 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Privacy and security considerations for virtual health care visits
Date: Feb 25 2021 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Digital Health under PHIPA: Selected Overview
Date: May 12 2021 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Your Health Information and Your Privacy (Brochure)
Date: Oct 04 2021 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Your Health Information and Your Privacy Rights (Poster)
Date: Oct 04 2021 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Manual for the Review and Approval of Prescribed Organizations
Date: Oct 18 2021 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Review of Ontario Health: The Prescribed Organization under the Personal Health Information Protection Act
Date: Oct 29 2021 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Comments on Bill 60, Your Health Act, 2023
This letter to Goldie Ghamari, Chair of the Standing Committee on Social Policy, was intended to present the IPC’s views on how amendments to Bill 60 can better enhance transparency and privacy protections of Ontarians’ information with respect to the Integrated Community Health Services Cent...
Date: Mar 28 2023 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Notice of change to PHIPA Practice Direction #3
Document Updated: A change to PHIPA Practice Direction #3 took effect on October 10, 2023. Learn more As of October 10, 2023, the IPC may publish PHIPA decisions at any stage of dispute resolution, including early resolution, investigation, and adjudication. This includes publishing the name of ...
Date: Sep 06 2023 Type: Resource Access: Both
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