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The Personal Health Information Protection Act, also known as PHIPA, is Ontario legislation established in November 2004. PHIPA is one of two components of the Health Information Protection Act 2004 .
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.
Ontario Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 , S.O. 2004, c. 3, Schedule A , Health Information Custodians in the Province of Ontario Exemption Order , SOR/2005-399
Although the Ontario Case Costing Initiative (OCCI) is a Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) database, it depends on "methodology... based on the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) MIS Guidelines". [12] CIHI also manages the Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS), an Ontario exclusive database.
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.
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