Collection
Health Information and Privacy
Date
File Numbers
HA22-00209
Adjudicators
Jessica Kowalski
Decision Type
Decision - PHIPA
Applicable Legislation
PHIPA - 4(1)
PHIPA - 55(8)
An individual’s substitute decision maker asked a care home to remove a progress note from the individual’s file, claiming that the progress note is not a record of personal health information and although accurate, implies wrongdoing on the substitute decision-maker’s part. The adjudicator finds that the progress note is a record of personal health information. She finds that it is not incomplete or inaccurate for the purposes for which the care home uses the information, and that no duty to correct the record exists under section 55(8) of the Personal Health Information Protection Act. No order is issued.