Health Information Privacy and Management Act, restrictions on the Yukon public health insurance plan number and the YHCIP card
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A sensitive categories rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Prohibition
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Do not collect, use or disclose an individual's Yukon public health insurance plan number unless the section's exceptions apply, such as providing publicly funded health care to the individual, health research or a designated investigation, a purpose related to the Yukon health information network, a proceeding, or a prescribed purpose (s. 18(1)-(2)).
- Do not request production of a YHCIP card unless you are a custodian, an agent of a custodian or a prescribed person asking in relation to the provision of publicly funded health care to the individual or for a prescribed purpose (s. 18(3)-(4)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Section 18 bars the collection, use and disclosure of the Yukon public health insurance plan number and the request for a YHCIP card outside its exceptions. It is a prohibition on handling an identifier and requires no one to make, keep or produce a log or record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
No person may collect, use or disclose an individual's Yukon public health insurance plan number, and no person may request production of a YHCIP card, except as the section allows.
The number may be collected, used or disclosed in relation to the provision of publicly funded health care to the individual, for health research or a designated investigation, for a purpose related to the Yukon health information network, for a purpose related to a prescribed enactment, for the purpose of a proceeding, by the Canadian Institute for Health Information or a prescribed health data institute that has entered into the agreement the Act describes, and for a prescribed purpose.
A custodian, an agent of a custodian or a prescribed person may request production of a YHCIP card in relation to the provision of publicly funded health care to the individual or for a prescribed purpose.
When LexLint raises it
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