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    We may see a day when the records collected by the Children's Aid Society in Ontario is a medical record and governed under the same rules and regulations governing these clinical encounters.

    Commissioner Cavoukian marks 25 years of innovative access and privacy leadership in Ontario! - WSJ.com

    The government should launch a comprehensive review to compile a list of institutions, including Children's Aid Societies, which are primarily funded by government but are not yet covered by FIPPA or MFIPPA. This should be followed by a prompt assessment of these institutions - with the default position being that each institution on the list should be added to the appropriate Act, unless there are compelling reasons not to add a specific institution.
    PHIPA is being improved through legislative reform:

    Newsroom : Ontario Strengthening Patient Privacy

    Clarify the rules under which health care providers may collect, use and disclose personal health information in the electronic health record.
    It would be a great opportunity for the government of Ontario to explore the Office of the Children's Lawyer ("OCL") and Section 30 ("private assessment") of the CLRA.

    The "reports" produce by these "experts" are often miss construed as "medical records" by the courts. They are absolutely not "medical records". They are subjective opinions often not grounded in any objective medical fact or "evidence based medicine".

    If these "reports" are going to be "medical records" then they should be treated as medical records, have the same requirements and obligations that a medical record has and most importantly, that the clinician's creating these "reports" rely upon the basic principals of "evidence medicine" for which all other professional practices of "medicine" engage in and are governed by.

    Better clinical practices need to be implemented at the OCL and by the respective colleges who govern the "professionals" who participate in "custody and access evaluations".

    Much of the "clinical practice" of these "professionals" is smoke, mirrors and a lot of "truisms" and not based on sound objective medical practices ("evidence based medicine").

    The OCL and Section 30 of the CLRA need significant legislative reform in Ontario.

    Good Luck!
    Tayken

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    Wow, have pigs learned to fly.
    Well maybe some day soon.

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