PHIL 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Personal Information Protection And Electronic Documents Act, Implied Consent
6 May 2020
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Cost: high upfront acquisition costs for relevant software, routine support and maintenance, and necessary hardware updates. User reluctance to adopt: clinicians who may be less comfortable with computers and software. Confidentially refers to a duty that one owes to safeguard information that has been entrusted to an individual by another. Each pharmacy provincial regulating body has their own code of ethics. Privacy = the right of an individual to live free of intrusive monitoring of their personal affairs by third parties not of their choosing. Confidentiality = a security technique that permits read access and retrieval by authorized entities only. Security = he ability to ensure that information is neither modified nor disclosed except in accordance to the security policy. Privacy act and the access to information act (1983) = first piece of privacy legislation seen in canada. Provinces have their own offices of information and privacy commissioners who have the right to investigate at will.
