¶ … Health Information Privacy Legislation
The relevance of protecting the personal health information of the residents of Prince Edward Island (PEI) cannot be overstated. Towards that end, I propose that you introduce legislation that would protect as well as limit access to the individually identifiable health information of residents of the province. Such legislation should ideally address who can have access to or receive a consumer's health information. As you may already know, in Canada, the privacy of consumers "is protected at the federal level by the Privacy Act…and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)" (Kristoffersson, Schmidtke and Cassiman, 2010). Prince Edward Island (PEI) unlike other provinces in Canada has no health privacy legislation in place.
In basic terms, patient privacy according to Kirch (2008) "is the right and desire of a person to control the disclosure of personal health information." With no health information privacy legislation in place, some employers would seek to utilize the personal medical information of employees for decision making purposes. In the words of Plasencia (1999), concerns "…that disclosure of sensitive medical information could result in loss of employment and insurance relate to the growing importance attached to privacy and confidentiality." Further, it is also important to note that some employers could be tempted to use job applicants' health information in the job selection process. For example, an employer who has unrestricted access to the personal health information of a job applicant could find that the said applicant has hypertension...
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