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A practitioner's response to the Final Report of the Select Special Health Information Act Review Committee.

Publication: Health Law Review
Publication Date: 22-DEC-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
The Final Report of the Select Special Health Information Act Review Committee (SSHIARC), released in October, 2004 should make any reasonable physician recoil in horror.

The Committee recommended that:

"31. The Act should be amended to mandate disclosure, without consent, to police services of:

* Patient name

* Address/location in facility

* Date of admission

* Name of physician

* Nature of injury

When:

* For purposes of obtaining a warrant or subpoena, and when the police have reasonable grounds to suspect that the person seeking health services has been involved in some form of criminal activity; and make a request for that information, or

* A custodian has reasonable grounds to suspect that the person seeking health services has been involved in some form of criminal activity

32. The Act should be amended to mandate disclosure of limited health information without consent to police services where a custodian has reasonable grounds to suspect...

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