Making Privacy Agile: Privacy Impact Assessments for an Agile IT Environment By Waël Hassan, PhD Current models for Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA) assume a staged, gated process for software development. With the increasing popularity of agile IT, a software development […]
Health care is an extremely complex system operated by the province and service providers. The province is a specialist in governance and regulation, the service providers are specialists in medicine – neither are experts in privacy or security. Companies such […]
By Dr. Waël Hassan, KI Design CEO Many Canadian healthcare organizations are asking questions about using U.S.-based cloud service providers to manage services such as email and databases. Cloud service providers in the U.S. and public organizations in Canada often […]
Health care is defined as any observation, examination, evaluation, care, service or procedure that is performed for a health-related purpose.
PHIPA requires that the Board provide written information describing the practices of the Health Information Custodian.
It is prudent to obtain written informed consent from parents/legal guardians of minors under 16 years of age.
When a person has the capacity to understand the information that is relevant to deciding whether to consent, that person is the one from whom consent is obtained.
The law makes it clear that a capable person, regardless of age, may consent to the collection, use and disclosure of his or her personal health information.
Consent is considered “informed” if the individual knows what information is collected, how it will be used, where and for how long it will be stored, under what circumstances it will be disclosed, for what period of time consent will […]
Within the province of Ontario there are already individuals and organizations that receive personal health information from those authorized to collect and use it.
