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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
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- Published on Aug 16, 2015

Is it worth it? The consequences of snooping on health records

TORONTO, ON – While the vast majority of people working in Ontario’s health sector respect patient privacy, there is still a small minority that have not gotten the message. Recently, there have been a number of privacy breaches where personal health information (PHI) was accessed by health...
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- Published on Jan 28, 2015

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 assisting
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- Published on Jan 28, 2015

Rouge Valley Health System Failed to Protect Patient Health Information

A review by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) of two significant privacy breaches involving the sale of new mothers’ personal health information for financial gain has determined that Rouge Valley Health System (hospital) failed to put in place reasonable technical and...
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- Published on Dec 16, 2014

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.
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- Published on Sep 28, 2012

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
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- Published on Aug 1, 2012

Applying PHIPA and FIPPA to Personal Health Information: Guide for Hospitals

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- Published on Apr 20, 2011

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
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- Published on Apr 19, 2011

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
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- Published on Jul 16, 2010

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
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- Published on Mar 30, 2010