Law / Canada / Nova Scotia
Personal Health Information Act, disclosure outside the Province
archived copy
Read from a public archive copy, not the publisher directly. The publisher does not serve this page to automated readers, so a direct fetch was not an option here; how we access sources. Archived . Publisher's page: https://nslegislature.ca/sites/default/files/legc/statutes/personal%20health%20information.pdfIn force since .
A cross border transfer rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Transfer
As of .
What it requires
- As a custodian, disclose personal health information collected in the Province to a person outside the Province only where the individual consents, the Act or the regulations permit it, the disclosure meets another jurisdiction's prescription monitoring program or is for health-system planning and goes to another province's government, or it is reasonably necessary for the individual's health care and they have not expressly instructed you not to make it (s. 44(1)).
- If an express request of the individual stops you disclosing everything you consider reasonably necessary for their health care, tell the person to whom you disclose that fact (s. 44(2)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
What this law does
A custodian may disclose personal health information collected in the Province to a person outside the Province if the individual consents, the Act or the regulations permit it, the disclosure is to a regulated health professional to meet the functions of another jurisdiction's prescription monitoring program, the disclosure is for health system planning and management, relates to health care provided in the Province to a resident of another province and is made to that province's government, or it is reasonably necessary for the provision of health care and the individual has not expressly instructed the custodian not to make it.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app handles health records.