Health Information Custodian definition

Health Information Custodian means a person or organization (described in PHIPA) who has custody or control of Personal Health Information as a result of or in connection with performing the person’s or organization’s powers or duties or the work.

Health Information Custodian. “IPC”, “Minister”, “Personal Health Information” or “PHI”, “Prescribed Entity”, “Research” shall have their respective meanings as under PHIPA or the PHIPA Regulation.

Health Information Custodian or “HIC” means an individual or organization who, as a result of their power or duties, has custody or control of personal health information; healthcare providers such as pharmacists, physicians and nurses are health information custodians; it is the definition used in the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (Ontario);

Examples of Health Information Custodian in a sentence

• Health Information Custodian (HIC): As defined in section 3 of the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA), 2004, a HIC provides CAMH with access to PHI in its custody, and for which CAMH acts as a Service Provider (i.e., an electronic service provider or health information network provider as these terms are defined in PHIPA).

• Public Health GeneralPersonal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA)**Any Health Information Custodian (“HIC”) or their agent is authorized to exempt, in whole or in part, any person from the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) fees, where he or she is of the opinion that the payment of such fees may cause undue financial hardship to the person requiring the service in question.

• Additionally, Section 8 of the Personal Health Information Protection Act (Ontario) addresses the general inapplicability of Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Ontario) and Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Ontario) to personal health information in the custody of a Health Information Custodian (as that term is defined in such applicable legislation) such as SCAN.

• Consent must be express for Disclosures of Personal Health Information to a) a non Health Information Custodian, or b) to a Health Information Custodian, but not for purposes of providing health care.

• Such consent may be implied for Disclosure of Personal Health Information to a Health Information Custodian for the purposes of providing health care.

More Definitions of Health Information Custodian

Health Information Custodian or “HIC” means a health information custodian as that term is defined in PHIPA.

Health Information Custodian means a health information custodian within the meaning of the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004; (“dépositaire de renseignements sur la santé”)

Health Information Custodian means a person or organization that performs health care in accordance with Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2014, sub-section 3(1).

Health Information Custodian means, subject to subsections (2) to (5), a person described in one of the following paragraphs who has custody or control of personal health information as a result of or in connection with performing the person’s powers or duties or the work described in the paragraph, if any, but not otherwise:

Health Information Custodian means a health information custodian as defined in the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004, S.O. 2004, c. 3 (“PHIPA”);

Health Information Custodian has the meaning ascribed to it in PHIPA;

Health Information Custodian or “Custodian” means a “Health Information Custodian” as that term is defined by PHIPA;