Date: Jul 01 2005 Type: Resource Access: Both
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DownloadRevised Sept. 2014.
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Date: Jan 01 2005 Type: Resource Access: Both
DownloadA form to be signed by a complainant who is represented by someone other than a lawyer.
Date: Jul 11 2005 Type: Resource Access: Public
DownloadA 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
DownloadA 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
DownloadThis brochure provides information on complaints about access or correction of personal health information under PHIPA.
Date: Dec 16 2004 Type: Resource Access: Both
DownloadThis brochure provides information about collection, use, disclosure and other complaints under PHIPA.
Date: Dec 01 2004 Type: Resource Access: Both
DownloadOur 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
DownloadThis 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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Date: Oct 01 2005 Type: Resource Access: Both
DownloadThis guide is a tool to help health information custodians understand their rights and obligations under the Personal Health Information Protection Act, (PHIPA).
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Date: Feb 01 2006 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Date: Oct 16 2005 Type: Resource Access: Both
DownloadRFID and Privacy: Guidance for Health-Care Providers. RFID technology can help save lives – and preserve privacy.
Date: Jan 23 2008 Type: Resource Access: Both
DownloadThis 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
DownloadHealth 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
DownloadThe 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
DownloadThe 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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Date: Apr 20 2011 Type: Resource Access: Both
DownloadIn 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
DownloadThere 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
DownloadUnauthorized 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
DownloadA 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
DownloadSubmission 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
DownloadThe purpose of the Manual For The Review and Approval of Prescribed Persons and Prescribed Entities is to outline the new process that will be followed by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, commencing on January 31, 2010, in reviewing the practices and procedures implemented by ...
Date: Apr 21 2010 Type: Resource Access: Both
DownloadThis 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
DownloadThis 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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Date: Feb 28 2017 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Date: Feb 28 2017 Type: Resource Access: Both
DownloadPHIPA Code of Procedure
Date: Feb 28 2017 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Date: Feb 28 2017 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Date: Sep 17 2019 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Date: Nov 10 2017 Type: Resource Access: Both
DownloadThis 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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Date: Feb 26 2019 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Date: Mar 29 2019 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Date: Apr 24 2019 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Date: Jul 06 2020 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Date: Feb 25 2021 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Date: May 12 2021 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Date: Oct 18 2021 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Date: Oct 29 2021 Type: Resource Access: Both
DownloadThis 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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