The Health Information Act (HIA) legislates open and accountable health care by guaranteeing applicants the right to access records held by health record custodians.
At this time, the HIA applies only to records resulting from health services paid for in whole or in part by the public health care system.
It is a principle of the HIA [...]

The Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA) – a new provincial law governing the collection, use and disclosure of personal health information – comes into effect within days.
The new privacy law, the first in Ontario in nearly 14 years, takes effect Nov. 1. It is designed to provide a set of comprehensive and consistent [...]