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Understanding Privacy Impact Assessments
A PIA is the process of examining how your clinic collects, uses, discloses, and disposes of protected patient information to establish administrative, physical, and technology safeguards that protect the data in your care against reasonably anticipated threats.
In some jurisdictions such as Alberta, Canada, PIAs are mandatory for many healthcare professions. Privacy legislation around the world is evolving to require PIAs for all businesses.
Often more than 300 pages long, a PIA is your team’s playbook for compliant policies and procedures designed to avoid privacy breaches in your practice and keep you, your staff, and your patients safe.
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Any clinic anywhere can and should complete a PIA.
Clinics in 11 disciplines in the province of Alberta are required by law to complete, submit and keep-up-to-date a Privacy Impact Assessment.The following professionals are required to submit a PIA to the Office of Information and Privacy Commissioner in Alberta.
- Regulated members of the Alberta Dental Association and College
- Regulated members of the College of Alberta Denturists
- Regulated members of the College of Registered Dental Hygienists of Alberta
- Regulated members of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Province of Alberta
- Regulated members of the Alberta College of Pharmacists
- Regulated members of the Alberta College of Optometrists
- Registered members of the Alberta Opticians Association
- Regulated members of the Alberta College and Association of Chiropractors
- Registered members of the Alberta Association of Midwives
- Registered members of the Alberta Podiatry Association
- Regulated members of the College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta