Investigation Report: FIPPA Refused Access – Manitoba Health

2014-04-29

Summary

Manitoba Health; refusal of access to database records under FIPPA; provisions 2, 3(a), 6(2), 7(1), 7(2), 17(1), 17(2)(a), definition of “personal health information, HIPAA Privacy Rule and “Safe Harbour” Standard, Pan-Canadian De-identification Guidelines for Personal Health Information; ombudsman found that the information was personal health information that was required to be withheld and that it could not reasonably be severed to provide access to residual fields of data for the approximately 600,000 patient-level records that were within the scope of the request.

Case 2013-0228