Researchers who perform any therapeutic or diagnostic tests in clinical trials will be considered to be providing health care and so will be subject to all the proposed regulations
regarding personal health information.
New regulations governing the use
of personal health information and medical records will impact researchers if passed according to a proposed federal ruling published last month.
Those obtaining personally identifiable information and / or
personal health information from consumers are still required to use appropriate technical measures to protect it from unauthorized disclosure.
If so, these measures may have the deterrent effect needed to better protect
personal health information in Ontario and spur non-compliant health information custodians, including hospitals, to take those additional and necessary measures to meet oversight, technology, and audit requirements.
Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec and Ontario have passed legislation to deal specifically with
personal health information by public and private sector health care providers and other health care organizations.
Lonny will be co-chairing The 2017 Legal Guide to Privacy & Information Management in Healthcare April 10, 2017 and presenting on disclosure of
personal health information for use in proceedings.
PHIPA explicitly states that a health information custodian shall not collect, use, or disclose
personal health information about an individual for marketing anything or for market research unless the individual expressly consents and the custodian collects, uses, or discloses the information, as the case may be, subject to the prescribed requirements and restrictions, if any.
When using the Online Services, you may be asked if you would like to share
certain personal health information collected by Apple's HealthKit with Planned Parenthood, If you grant Planned Parenthood access to Apple's HealthKit Database, Planned Parenthood will import your relevant data from the HealthKit Database into the selected Planned Parenthood application.
Note that under privacy laws, a physician must have a patient's permission to
share personal health information, so consider getting a medical Power of Attorney to access this information.
Section 65 of the
Ontario Personal Health Information Act, 2004, SO 2004, c 3, Sch A, may be of assistance in this context as it deals with the protection of medical information.
We have developed a complete security policy derived from NIST 800 - 53 and maintain active business associate agreements (BAAs) with all partners for performing HIPAA compliant clearinghouse functions as well as for handling
other personal health information as needed.
He had graduated from the University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law and summered with the New Brunswick Department of Health, where he worked
on personal health information legislation.
On the other hand, we have a generally applicable privacy law (PIPEDA) and some provincial equivalents, plus
personal health information laws in most provinces.
«Because we would be collecting and
housing personal health information in the cloud, they let us know pretty early into the negotiations that we'd need to expand our level of insurance,» Bowman says.
At Hicks Morley, we have long advised our clients that privacy legislation need not, and indeed does not, prevent emergency - related disclosures of personal information,
including personal health information.
PHIPA also obliges a health information custodian to take steps that are «reasonable in the circumstances» to
ensure personal health information in their custody or control is protected against theft, loss, and unauthorized use or disclosure and to ensure records containing the information are protected against unauthorized copying, modification, or disposal.
«Assistant Commissioner» means the Assistant Commissioner for
Personal Health Information appointed under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act; («commissaire adjoint»)
But as Wired points out, «overlaps among big databases, like voter registration or census data
alongside personal health information, mean that a good coder can often de-anonymize that stuff.»
Rouge Valley had used electronic information systems to facilitate the provision of health care to its patients and the IPC found it had not implemented the measures necessary to ensure it was able to audit all instances where agents
access personal health information on its electronic information systems, including the selection of patient names on the patient index of its electronic information system.
Phrases with «personal health information»