Collection
Health Information and Privacy
Date
File Numbers
HI20-00006
Adjudicators
Alanna Maloney
Decision Type
Decision
Applicable Legislation
PHIPA - 1(a)
PHIPA - 18
PHIPA - 19(a)
PHIPA - 20
PHIPA - 29
PHIPA - 37(a)
PHIPA - 37(d)
The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario received a complaint under the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (the Act) about an alleged unauthorized use of patients’ personal health information by three doctors of a public hospital. This decision finds that the use of the personal health information by two of the three doctors to be in accordance with the Act. According to the audit information provided by the hospital, the third doctor did not access the patients’ personal health information.