Health Information and Privacy
- Decision - PHIPA
[ Anglais ]
Résumé :
The complainant submitted a twelve-part correction request under the Act to a health information custodian for the correction of her personal health information within a psychotherapy consultation rep...
Health Information and Privacy
- Decision - PHIPA
[ Anglais ]
Résumé :
A medical imaging clinic notified the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (the IPC) of a breach under the Personal Health Information Protection Act (the Act or PHIPA), follo...
Health Information and Privacy
- Decision - PHIPA
[ Anglais ]
Résumé :
The complainant requested a copy of her entire file from the custodian. The complainant was dissatisfied with the completeness of the records she received and challenges the search for records. The ad...
Health Information and Privacy
- Decision - PHIPA
[ Anglais ]
Résumé :
Asserting the correction rights in the Act, the mother of a child requested that the hospital make several corrections to her child’s medical record regarding a previous diagnosis and references to o...
Health Information and Privacy
- Decision - PHIPA
[ Anglais ]
Résumé :
The complainant asserted that a doctor had not conducted a reasonable search for his medical records. The complainant relied on an affidavit of documents from an existing court proceeding between hims...
Health Information and Privacy
- Decision - PHIPA
[ Anglais ]
Résumé :
In December 2022, the respondent the Hospital for Sick Children (the hospital) was the subject of a ransomware attack. The attack resulted in the encryption of numerous hospital servers, including tho...
Health Information and Privacy
- Decision - PHIPA
[ Anglais ]
Résumé :
In June 2021, the respondent Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Public Health (KFL&A) was the subject of a ransomware attack. The attack resulted in the encryption of multiple KFL&A servers, i...
Health Information and Privacy
- Decision - PHIPA
[ Anglais ]
Résumé :
In July 2022, the respondent Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) was the subject of an email phishing attack. As a result of the attack, a threat actor gained access to one SMDHU email account...
Health Information and Privacy
- Decision - PHIPA
[ Anglais ]
Résumé :
An individual asked the appointed guardian of her late doctor’s medical records (the custodian) for access to her complete medical records. While the custodian originally claimed he found the individu...