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Nova Scotia now has personal health information protection legislation

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • June 10 2013

On June 1, 2013, Nova Scotia's Personal Health Information Act, SNS 2010, c 41 along with the Personal Health Information Regulations, NS Reg

New electronic health records legislation on the horizon in Ontario

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • June 5 2013

The Liberal government in Ontario has introduced significant new amendments to its health privacy legislation, the Personal Health Information

A legal wrinkle: class action proceeding does not justify breach of doctor-patient confidentiality

  • McMillan LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • June 3 2013

In a case that pitted privacy rights against the efficacy of class notification, the British Columbia Court of Appeal has come down squarely on the

Ontario government introduces electronic health record legislation

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • May 30 2013

The Ontario government introduced An Act to amend certain Acts with respect to electronic health records yesterday. Among other things, this

Stewart McKelvey’s guide to the Personal Health Information Act (“PHIA”)

  • Stewart McKelvey
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 28 2013

Nova Scotia's Personal Health Information Act, S.N.S. 2010, c 41 ("PHIA") is new provincial legislation which will govern the collection, use

The Personal Health Information Act (PHIA) is coming.....

  • Stewart McKelvey
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 27 2013

On June 1, 2013, the Personal Health Information Act (PHIA) comes into force in Nova Scotia. If you are involved in health care in Nova Scotia, you

Data protection: defining innovative drug in Canada

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • April 22 2013

Canada amended its Data Protection Regulations in 2006 to provide protection for innovative drugs in a second attempt to implement Canada's 1994

Federal Court of Appeal considers data protection provisionsagain

  • Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 8 2013

The recent decision of the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) in Minister of Health v. Celgene Inc. (Celgene) marks the second split decision of that

FIPPA and Ontario hospitals: handling contentious requests

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 13 2013

For a little more than a year, Ontario hospitals have been subject to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act ("FIPPA"). Freedom of

Federal Court of Appeal finds 50 year old drug not an innovative drug

  • SIM. IP Practice
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  • Canada
  • -
  • March 6 2013

The Federal Court of Appeal (“FCA”) in a split decision denied Celgene’s request to have its “new” thalidomide drug product designated as an