O. Reg. 245/06: GENERAL
filed June 1, 2006 under Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004, S.O. 2004, c. 3, Sched. A
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made under the
Personal Health information protection act, 2004
Made: May 30, 2006
Filed: June 1, 2006
Published on e-Laws: June 2, 2006
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: June 17, 2006
Amending O. Reg. 329/04
(General)
1. Section 18 of Ontario Regulation 329/04 is amended by adding the following subsection:
(8) An entity that is a prescribed entity for the purposes of subsection 45 (1) of the Act may disclose the information it receives under subsection 45 (1) of the Act to the Minister and any person designated by the Minister for the purpose of developing and maintaining an electronic master person index for the Province of Ontario’s health sector to accurately identify and organize records of personal health information about an individual.
2. The Regulation is amended by adding the following section:
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation
25.1 The Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation may disclose personal health information of an individual that it receives from a health information custodian to the Women’s College Hospital Foundation for the purpose of fundraising activities undertaken for a charitable or philanthropic purpose related to the operations of the Women’s College Hospital if the following requirements are satisfied:
1. The only information disclosed is the individual’s name and mailing address.
2. The Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation has provided to the individual a brief statement that, unless the individual requests otherwise, the individual’s name and mailing address may be disclosed to the Women’s College Hospital Foundation for the purpose of fundraising activities undertaken for a charitable or philanthropic purpose related to the operations of the Women’s College Hospital.
3. The statement provided in accordance with paragraph 2 contains information on one or more simple ways by which the individual may request that the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation not disclose the individual’s name and mailing address to the Women’s College Hospital Foundation.
4. The individual has not requested that his or her name and mailing address not be disclosed to the Women’s College Hospital Foundation.
5. The disclosure by the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation to the Women’s College Hospital Foundation is made no earlier than 60 days after the individual is provided with the statement described in paragraph 2.