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  • 1.

    PHIPA DECISION 284 - 2025-06-16

    Health Information and Privacy - Decision - PHIPA
    Summary:  Five hospitals and a health care clinic (collectively, the custodians) reported a privacy breach under the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (the Act) involving a ransomware attack agai...
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    PHIPA DECISION 281 - 2025-05-30

    Health Information and Privacy - Decision - PHIPA
    Summary:  An individual made a complaint under the Personal Health Information Protection Act (the Act) about the use of their personal health information by Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (the hospital) and...
  • 3.

    PHIPA DECISION 282 - 2025-05-30

    Health Information and Privacy - Decision - PHIPA
    Summary:  This decision disposes of the outstanding issue of the reasonableness of a search conducted by the Queensway Carleton Hospital (the hospital) for correspondence, messages or documentation relating to ...
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    PHIPA DECISION 283 - 2025-05-30

    Health Information and Privacy - Decision - PHIPA
    Summary:  An individual submitted a request for reconsideration of PHIPA Decision 275, where the adjudicator ordered the hospital to conduct a further search, which was to include searching for emails between i...
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    PHIPA DECISION 280 - 2025-05-06

    Health Information and Privacy - Order - Final
    Summary:  The complainant made an access request to a doctor for records relating to his child’s health care. The doctor located and granted access to records. The complainant filed a complaint based on his bel...
  • 6.

    PHIPA DECISION 278 - 2025-04-30

    Health Information and Privacy - Decision - PHIPA
    Summary:  Under the Personal Health Information Protection Act, the complainant made a request to the Ministry of Health for access to certain types of records of his personal health information. The ministry t...
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    PHIPA DECISION 279 - 2025-04-30

    Health Information and Privacy - Decision - PHIPA
    Summary:  An individual submitted a request for reconsideration of PHIPA Decision 274, where the adjudicator found that the hospital conducted a reasonable search for records relating to the individual’s father...
  • 8.

    PHIPA DECISION 277 - 2025-03-18

    Health Information and Privacy - Decision - PHIPA
    Summary:  The complainant made an access request to the clinic for all records containing his name or OHIP number. The clinic located eight pages of clinical notes and disclosed these to the complainant, but th...
  • 9.

    PHIPA DECISION 276 - 2025-03-12

    Health Information and Privacy - Decision - PHIPA
    Summary:  On June 23, 2024, the complainant asked a doctor at Family Care Medical Centre - Whitby (the custodian) for access to their personal health information under the Act. The complainant filed a complaint...
  • 10.

    PHIPA DECISION 274 - 2025-02-25

    Health Information and Privacy - Decision - PHIPA
    Summary:  An individual asked a hospital for records from her deceased father’s two-day hospital stay. After receiving records from the hospital, the complainant stated that additional records should exist.
    In ...
  • 11.

    PHIPA DECISION 275 - 2025-02-25

    Health Information and Privacy - Decision - PHIPA
    Summary:  An individual asked a hospital for access to correspondence, messages and documentation between specified doctors related to her deceased father’s two-day hospital stay. After receiving records from ...
  • 12.

    PHIPA Decision 273 - 2025-02-20

    Health Information and Privacy - Decision - PHIPA
    Summary:  This reconsideration decision addresses the custodian’s request for reconsideration of PHIPA Decision 268. In that decision, the adjudicator found that the custodian was obliged to provide the complai...
  • 13.

    PHIPA DECISION 272 - 2025-02-13

    Health Information and Privacy - Decision - PHIPA
    Summary:  The complainant made an access request to a doctor for records relating to his child’s health care. The doctor located and granted access to records. The complainant filed a complaint based on his bel...
  • 14.

    PHIPA DECISION 271 - 2025-02-03

    Health Information and Privacy - Decision - PHIPA
    Summary:  This decision concludes an IPC-initiated file arising from allegations made by two different information sources about unauthorized disclosures of personal health information by the respondents Dr. Ri...
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    PHIPA DECISION 270 - 2025-01-31

    Health Information and Privacy - Decision - PHIPA
    Summary:  A doctor requested records from the Ontario Medical Association’s Physician Health Program (OMA PHP). She had previously been referred to that program by her hospital employer and participated in its...