Collection
Health Information and Privacy
Date
File Numbers
HA21-00014
Adjudicators
Stella Ball
Decision Type
Decision - PHIPA
Applicable Legislation
PHIPA - 57(3)
PHIPA - 57(4)(a)
PHIPA - 55(8)
PHIPA - 55(9)(b)
The complainant sought a review of a hospital’s decision to refuse her request, under the Personal Health Information Protection Act, to correct her records of personal health information that referred to her suffering from mental illness. The hospital refused the correction request under the section 55(9)(b) (professional opinions or observations made in good faith) exception to the duty to correct in section 55(8) of the Act.
In this decision, the adjudicator exercises her discretion, under sections 57(3) and 57(4)(a) of the Act, not to conduct a review of the complaint because there are no reasonable grounds to do so and the hospital has responded adequately to the complaint.