Health Sciences 3101A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Internal Audit, Peel Regional Police, Qualified Privilege
18 Nov 2020
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Implicit common law right to disclose confidential patient information without consent in: compassionate situations; and in undertaking an internal audit, quality assurance measures and other routine management tasks. Healthcare law chapter 11 lecture notes disclosure: the patient"s consent to the information policies should be obtained at the outset of the relationship, when the patient"s consent is first sought for treatment. Individuals who initiate legal proceedings that put their treatment, medical condition or health in issue are viewed as giving up, or waiving, their right to confidentiality in that information. Disclosure in the public interest: lion laboratories ltd. v. evans, a complaint of the provincial medical board against dr. eric hansen, under the nova. Scotia medical act, february 13th, 1996: liss v. watters. Hic: even if phipa permits disclosure, hics may be prohibited from doing so pursuant to another statutory or common law principle.
