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PHIPA is one of two components of the Health Information Protection Act 2004. [1] The Health Information Protection Act, also established in 2004, comprises two schedules: PHIPA (Schedule A) and the Quality of Care Information Protection Act (Schedule B). [1] The PHIPA replaced the Health Cards and Numbers Control Act (SO 1991, c 1). [2]
After years of advocacy, a Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) was enacted in 2004. This health privacy law applied to all individuals and organizations involved in the delivery of health care services – both public and private sectors – to ensure the protection of personal health information of patients.
The Personal Health Information Protection Act serves three important functions: To govern the collection, use, and disclosure of personal health information by health information custodians. To provide patients with a right to request access to and correction of their records of personal health information held by health information custodians.
On November 1, 2004, Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) took effect granting the province of Ontario its first health information privacy legislation governing the collection, use and disclosure of personal health information. Cavoukian had been an advocate of this legislation since the office of the IPC was first formed in 1987.
Since 2005, CIHI has maintained prescribed entity status under the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA). [24] Prescribed entity status gives an organization access to personal health data from government health information custodians, without patient consent. [25] [26]
As a result of this finding, many jurisdictions now waive the requirement for informed consent for these purposes. In 2005, it became a “prescribed entity” under Ontario's Personal Health Information Protection Act, permitting the collection of patient data without consent for the purposes of improving the provision of stroke care. Since ...
The Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion was established in 2008 by the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion Act, 2007. [2] The OAHPP is an agent of the Crown (i.e. a Crown agency) and is considered an arm's-length government agency.
In 1977, the Williams Commission was convened with a mandate from Ontario's Attorney General to report on public information policies of the Government of Ontario. The Commission presented recommendations to the provincial legislature in August, 1980.