Download or read book Access to and Confidentiality of Health Care Records in British Columbia written by B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association and published by . This book was released on 1992* with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Privacy Commissioner Shocked by Surrey Council Plan to Access Patient Medical Records written by British Columbia. Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Information Privacy in the British Columbia Health Care System written by Rabia Chung and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis investigates the challenges to the protection of privacy in the health care field and the regulatory response by the government of British Columbia to legislate information and privacy rights. Recent social, political, economic and technological developments all pose potential threats to privacy. An examination of the privacy literature demonstrates that the subject of privacy has captured the attention of many disciplines. Furthermore, the legal, philosophical, political and socio-cultural literature suggests diverse views exist about the definition and value of privacy. Nevertheless, in Canada and other western countries, privacy is considered an important value in a liberal democratic state. Specifically, "information privacy" where individuals have some control over the dissemination of personal information is a subject which has been gaining salience on the public agenda over the past thirty years. In response to the modem welfare state's expanding data banks of personal information and the proliferation of computerization, several western democracies have enacted data protection policies. A comparative examination of data protection policies highlights different approaches to the protection of privacy in the United States and Canada. The government of British Columbia drew from these experiences and enacted stronger data protection legislation. The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPP) Act gave the Information and Privacy Commissioner regulatory powers to overturn government decisions and to issue binding orders. Privacy of health information is an important data protection issue. Traditionally, the medical relationship was confidential and free from third party interference. A critical survey of theories in the health literature describes the physician-patient relationship and information control. The proliferation of information within society increases the need to control and to limit the use of personal health records. Three trends in the health care field challenge the traditional professional relationship between the physician and the patient. First, the status of the physician changes as more individuals and organizations gain access to patient information. Moreover, consumers of health services demand more information from physicians. Second, the multi-disciplinary approach to health care delivery requires the exchange and sharing of information among health care professionals. Researchers and public health officers require identifiable patient information to conduct studies and to protect public health. Third, government agencies request more information from the health care sector and recipients of social benefits. The information is used to regulate and control the publicly funded health care system. The provision of hospital insurance, medicare and other health care insurance programs entails the collection of large quantities of information. A variety of technologies including the Pharmanet computerized drug information system and card technologies provide administrative data and permit the sharing of health information among government agencies and health care professionals. Some critics and advocates suggest the new technologies reduce privacy further and increase the potential for a "surveillance society." An examination of the policy literature, parliamentary debates and interviews with members of the policy community promoting information rights in British Columbia demonstrates that privacy is important both politically and symbolically. An assessment of the FOIPP Act and interviews with hospitals and self-governing professional bodies suggest patients and organizations have benefited from the legislative changes. The statutory requirements of the Act present some challenges to the financial and organizational resources of hospitals and self-governing professional bodies. A study of the health policy environment and the protection of privacy highlights a number of important trends in Canada. These include: the increasing legislative and judicial protection of privacy rights, the emerging patient rights movement, the regulatory challenge for governments to balance the right to privacy with the need to provide efficient and effective services using information technologies and the influential role of the policy community in the field of data protection.
Download or read book Accessing Health and Health Related Data in Canada written by The Expert Panel on Timely Access to Health and Social Data for Health Research and Health System Innovation and published by Council of CanadianAcademies. This book was released on 2015 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadians care deeply about their country’s health-care sector, and look to their governments and health-care providers to ensure that it remains healthy and vibrant. For this to be achievable, however, those who are charged with stewardship of this sector must continuously search for ways to improve it and the health outcomes it generates, including more effective interventions and other ways to improve patient care, better ways to address population health, more efficient models for health-care delivery, and innovative approaches to overall system design. All of these potential areas of improvements are fundamentally dependent on research, and that research is fundamentally dependent on data.
Download or read book Collection and Disclosure of Personal Information Between Health Care Providers and Policing Agencies Under the B C Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act written by British Columbia. Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This discussion paper provides guidance for the disclosure of personal information by British Columbia health care providers to the police, and for its collection from health care providers by the police. Guidelines are provided with regard to non-disclosure, discretionary disclosure (by consent, to assist in an investigation, in compelling circumstances, or to notify next of kin), and mandatory disclosure in situations of risk of significant harm to others. Other relevant issues are also discussed: notification of discharge of patients, disclosure of location of a specific patient in order to make an immediate arrest, health care providers as victims of an offence, and record keeping. The final section makes recommendations regarding the need for procedures and protocols, and on developing and communicating policies.
Download or read book Review of the Storage and Disposal of Health Care Records in British Columbia written by Shaun Howard Saville Peck and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidance Document written by British Columbia. Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Privacy and Data Protection in Health and Medical Information written by David H. Flaherty and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Limiting Access to Your Health Records written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collection and Disclosure of Personal Information Between Health Care Providers and Policing Agencies Under the B C Freedom of Information and Privacy Act written by British Columbia. Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medical Records Privacy written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Canadian Law of Patient Records written by Lorne Elkin Rozovsky and published by Lexis Law Publishing (Va). This book was released on 1984 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inquiry Re a Request for Access to Records of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry Responsible for Seniors written by British Columbia. Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medical Records Privacy written by Bernice Steinhardt and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The PARIS System for Community Care Services written by British Columbia. Office of the Auditor General and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents the findings of the Auditor General in their assessment of the Primary Access Regional Information System, or PARIS, as it is used by the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority. PARIS is an computer based health care system where information is recorded for many different types of health care, including home and residential care, mental health services and addictions services to infant and youth services and health promotion services. Since it is a community based service, PARIS links health care information throughout the region to create integrated electronic health care records. While many benefits can be achieved by the availability of this sensitive information, appropriate measures must be taken in order to secure and protect it. Managing appropriate access to this information can also be particularly challenging in the health care environment, where the primary focus is often on client service delivery, and not necessarily on information security. If adequate controls are not in place, the results could be loss of individual privacy, corruption or manipulation of client information, medical identity theft, or system failure. This audit presents the assessment of information level access, information and system security both inside and outside the PARIS system, and recommendations on what steps should be taken in order to make it more failsafe for the present and future.--Includes text from document.
Download or read book Protecting Data Privacy in Health Services Research written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-01-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for quality improvement and for cost saving are driving both individual choices and health system dynamics. The health services research that we need to support informed choices depends on access to data, but at the same time, individual privacy and patient-health care provider confidentiality must be protected.
Download or read book Confidentiality of Health Records the Meeting of Law Ethics and Clinical Issues written by Herman Schuchman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
