PHIPA DECISION 230

In this decision, the adjudicator finds that Woburn Medical Dental Centre Inc. is the health information custodian of the records of personal health information alleged to have been abandoned. The adjudicator orders the custodian and its agent to retrieve and secure the records. The adjudicator also finds that the use and/or disclosure of the records by certain respondents is governed by section 49(1) of the Act and that some of these respondents have contravened section 49(1) of the Act by withholding some of the records from the custodian. The adjudicator orders these respondents to return these records to the custodian when the custodian attends to retrieve them. The adjudicator makes other orders against some of the respondents necessary to preserve and secure the records until the custodian has retrieved them.