What is CCO’s role in relation to the Wait Time Information System?
In November 2004, Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care launched the provincial Wait Time Strategy with the primary objective of creating a central reporting system to track, measure, and reduce wait times. To enable the monitoring of wait times, the Ontario Wait Time Strategy implemented the web-based Wait Time Information System (WTIS) to facilitate wait time management and to provide the public with wait time information on all provincially funded surgical and diagnostic procedures. The WTIS is operated and managed by CCO in its capacity as a ‘prescribed entity’ under section 45 of the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA). CCO established the Wait Time Information Office (WTIO), which is responsible for supporting and administering the WTIS and reporting on wait times on its behalf. The WTIO has developed and implemented a WTIO Privacy Policy, which outlines the privacy practices and safeguards WTIO staff employ to protect personal health information in
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