Dental hygienists work with private health information in their practice. These guidelines outline key requirements from the Health Information Act, Standards of Practice, and the Code of Ethics regarding a dental hygienist’s duty to safeguard their patient’s health information.

Includes information about:

• Purpose of the Health Information Act (HIA)
• Individuals authorized to exercise rights by the HIA
• Custodians and affiliates
• Identifying and non-identifying health information
• Collecting, using, disclosing health information
• Privacy breaches
• Patient’s right to access, correct or amend their own health information
• Retaining patient records
• Custodianship of patient records after closing a dental hygiene practice
• Successor custodians
• Disposing patient records
• Confidentiality of information that is not health information

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