What is CCO’s role in the provision of Information Technology (IT) services?
With respect to a CCO palliative care initiative, CCO serves as an IT service provider (e.g. by providing applications or network services) under the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA). When operating in this capacity, CCO may only use the data collected in order to support IT services for health care providers (e.g. hospitals). CCO is not authorized under PHIPA to access any of the information collected for this purpose for its standard PHIPA Section 45 (‘prescribed entity’) planning and management functions.
