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Patient Safety Corner

How to Protect Clients' Health Information: Information for Healthcare Providers

Changes to the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA) mean tougher consequences for breaching the law. 

Personal Support Workers, although unregulated, are required to ensure that they protect clients' health information. For RNs and RPNs, there is a Confidentiality and Privacy webcast on the College of Nurses of Ontario web site. The 21-minute audio-visual presentation was created to educate nurses and other stakeholders about the serious legal responsibility of protecting personal health information.

It is divided into two chapters:
* Chapter one provides an overview of your accountabilities for maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of personal health information. It also discusses the changes to PHIPA, including new mandatory reporting requirements and the consequences of privacy breaches.

* Chapter two uses case studies to help you reflect on how to apply the concepts in the first chapter to situations that could result in privacy breaches.

Privacy breaches are serious offences that negatively affect the trust between healthcare providers and their clients, as well as public trust in the healthcare sector. The College of Nurses and the government have been taking legal and regulatory steps to protect the public and hold individuals and organizations accountable when they commit privacy breaches.

 

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