The Information and Privacy Commissioner, Michael Harvey, has released his Report PH-2021-001 under authority of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, 2015. A summary of the Report is included below.
To view the Report in its entirety, please go to www.oipc.nl.ca/reports/commissioner.
| Report: | PH-2021-001 |
| Report Date: | October 19, 2021 |
| Public Body: | Western Health and Workplace, NL |
| Summary: | A Complainant filed two privacy complaints under the Personal Health Information Act (PHIA) with this Office against two custodians of personal health information. The privacy complaints alleged that the Complainant’s personal health information had been improperly disclosed by Western Health, and improperly used by WorkplaceNL. The Commissioner found that there had been an improper disclosure of the Complainant’s personal health information by the first custodian but not an improper use of that information by the second custodian. As the former custodian has, since the time of the disclosure, satisfactorily amended its policies and procedures to prevent future inappropriate disclosures, the Commissioner had no recommendations to make. |
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