According to new rules within the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA), physicians, along with various other healthcare providers, are now required to notify the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario about any health privacy breaches on an annual basis. Data breaches include health information that was stolen, lost, used without authority, and/or disclosed without authority.
To permit the recording and reporting of data breaches for the 2018 calendar year, physicians are legally required to submit a record of any data breaches to the Information Privacy Commissioner through the statistics submission website by Friday, March 1, 2019. If you experienced no health privacy breaches during 2018, no report is required. Please note that submissions by mail or fax will not be accepted.
For additional information, to register/create your account and submit your annual health information breach statistics, click here.