Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. Guidelines for Professional Regulatory Bodies. Updated February 2024. 6 What is personal health information under HIPA? Discipline related documents may contain personal health information of several individuals, including witnesses, affected individuals the Complainant and/or the professional member. Subsection 2(1)(m) of HIPA defines personal health information as follows: 2(1)(m) “personal health information” means, with respect to an individual, whether living or deceased: (i) information with respect to the physical or mental health of the individual; (ii) information with respect to any health service provided to the individual; (iii) information with respect to the donation by the individual of any body part or any bodily substance of the individual or information derived from the testing or examination of a body part or bodily substance of the individual; (iv) information that is collected: (A) in the course of providing health services to the individual; or (B) incidentally to the provision of health services to the individual; or (v) registration information; Does HIPA authorize health professional regulatory bodies to disclose personal health information through the publication of discipline decisions? Below is a subsection of the HIPA Regulations that a health professional regulatory body should consider when determining if it has the legal authority to disclose personal health information.
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