Privacy & Health Law

This course will cover privacy and health law including definitions of common legal terms and key Canadian federal, provincial, and territorial legislation which affect health information and privacy. Learners will be introduced to privacy, security, and confidentiality principles, as they relate to various situations such as client privacy, maintaining confidentiality, ensuring security, confidentiality agreements, and external data sharing and access. Key provisions, principles, and definitions address in health information, data protection, and privacy statutes including access, collection, use, disclosure, and custodian/trustee and information manager obligations will be covered. Tools used to assess and manage privacy risk will be discussed.      

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