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An Ontario Act to establish consistent rules governing the collection, use and disclosure of personal health information in the hands of ’health information custodians‘, such as doctors, hospitals or other health care providers. The Personal Health Information Protection Act, also known as PHIPA, is Ontario legislation established in ...
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.
Canadian law. Canadian privacy law is derived from the common law, statutes of the Parliament of Canada and the various provincial legislatures, and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Perhaps ironically, Canada's legal conceptualization of privacy, along with most modern legal Western conceptions of privacy, can be traced back to ...
HIPAA was implemented in 1996 by President Clinton as a way to “strike a balance that permits important uses of information, while protecting the privacy of people who seek care and healing ...
Recording Industry Association of America. Entertainment Software Association. On January 18, 2012, a series of coordinated protests occurred against two proposed laws in the United States Congress —the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). These followed smaller protests in late 2011.
Introduced in the Senate as S. 968 by Patrick Leahy ( D – VT) on May 12, 2011. The PROTECT IP Act ( Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act, or PIPA) was a proposed law with the stated goal of giving the US government and copyright holders additional tools to curb access to "rogue websites ...
Website. www.cihi.ca. The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides essential information on Canada’s health systems and the health of Canadians. CIHI provides comparable and actionable data and information that are used to accelerate improvements in health care, health ...
Protected health information ( PHI) under U.S. law is any information about health status, provision of health care, or payment for health care that is created or collected by a Covered Entity (or a Business Associate of a Covered Entity), and can be linked to a specific individual. This is interpreted rather broadly and includes any part of a ...