234 result(s)
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1.Summary: Summary: The complainants, on behalf of their daughter, submitted a written request for access to their daughter’s hospital records and subsequently complained that the hospital did not respond to the...
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2.Summary: The complainant submitted a correction request to a medical clinic requesting that a specific reference contained in a note prepared by a physician be removed from the record. The custodian denied the...
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3.Summary: The complainant submitted an access request to the hospital for video records that would contain footage of an interaction he had with police outside the hospital’s emergency department on a specific ...
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4.Summary: The complainant sought access to his sons’ records of personal health information from Dr. Rita Kolycius. This decision determines that Dr. Kolycius is deemed to have refused the complainant’s request...
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5.Summary: The complainant sought access to video footage of events leading up to, and including his restraint and placement in a seclusion room by hospital staff.
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6.Summary: The complainant submitted a correction request under the Personal Health Information Protection Act to the hospital to correct his medical history information found in his electronic medical record. T...
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7.Summary: The complainant made a request under section 55 of the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA) to a psychologist to correct a Custody and Access Assessment Report that the psychologis...
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8.Summary: In this decision the IPC refuses a request by a doctor to defer a review of a collection, use and disclosure complaint, pending the completion of related proceedings before the College of Physicians a...
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9.Summary:
This decision addresses a number of issues arising in a complex complaint and appeal of a decision made by a hospital in response to a request for access to records relating to the birth and death of...
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10.Summary: The hospital received a request for records relating to the complainant’s son, who was the victim of a fatal motor vehicle accident. The hospital located records responsive to the request and granted ...
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11.Summary: In this decision the IPC decides that it has jurisdiction to receive a complaint from an individual about a health information custodian’s refusal to disclose the personal health information of a dece...
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12.Summary: The complainant sought disclosure of the personal health information of his deceased brother, without the consent of the estate trustee. In this decision the IPC decides that the complainant did not m...
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13.Summary: The complainant sought disclosure of the personal health information of his deceased sister, without the consent of the estate trustee, for health care purposes as permitted under section 38(4)(c) of ...
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14.Summary: The complainant sought disclosure of the personal health information of her deceased mother, without the consent of the estate trustees, relying on section 38(4)(b)(ii) of PHIPA (information about the...
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15.Summary: The IPC issues an interim order directing the landlord of premises holding abandoned health records to ensure the security of the records for two months, pending the IPC’s review.
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16.Summary: This complaint deals with access to records of personal health information. The complainant made a request to the City of Ottawa (the city) for her records of personal health information from the city...
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17.Summary: The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care requested that the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) reconsider PHIPA Decision 19, relating to the IPC’s jurisdiction over complaints abou...
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18.Summary: This decision considers whether a fee charged by a doctor in relation to a medical-legal report is a fee for making available a record of personal health information under the Personal Health Informat...
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19.Summary: The complainant asked the city for a copy of an audio recording that captures the complainant’s call to a 911 dispatcher seeking medical assistance for her uncle. After her uncle’s death, the complain...
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20.Summary: In this decision, the IPC concludes a Review under the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004, into abandoned records of personal health information, on the basis that the security of patien...
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21.Summary: A former patient of a deceased doctor complained about the actions of a medical storage company holding the records of the deceased doctor. The complainant wished to retrieve his original paper health...
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22.Summary: The daughter of a deceased patient made a request to the hospital for access to records of a meeting between the daughter and the hospital to discuss its treatment and care of her mother. The hospital...
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23.Summary: The complainant sought access to the records of personal health information of his deceased father from Dr. Peter Michael Fenton (Dr. Fenton). This order determines that Dr. Fenton is deemed to have r...
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24.Summary: Summary: The daughter of a former patient made a request to the hospital for access to records of correspondence relating to her deceased mother as well as to herself. The hospital denied access to a ...
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25.Summary: The complainant requested access to his personal health information, specifically, his interdisciplinary notes to the date of his request. The health information custodian, Royal Ottawa Health Care G...