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• Hospital Privacy Toolkit, September 2004 (link)
  
  
• Physician Privacy Toolkit (September 2004)
  
  
• Appendix of Forms or
   including:
    Sample Written Statement of Information Practices
    Sample Consent Form
    Sample Withdrawal of Consent Form
    Sample Confidentiality Agreement
    Sample Consent to Disclose Personal Health Information Form
    Sample Form to Request Access to Personal Health Record
    Sample Letter for Extension to Comply with Request
    Sample Refusal of Access Letter
    Sample Request Form for Correction to Personal Health Record
    Sample Application to Research Ethics Board
    Sample Consent Form for Study Participant
    Sample Consent Form for Fundraising
    Sample Withdrawal of Consent Form for Fundraising
  
  
  
• MOHLTC Consent to Disclose Personal Health Information (January 2005)
• OMA Privacy Statement
  
  
• Sample Privacy Policy
  
  

• Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario (www.ipc.on.ca)
  
  
• IPC Awareness Article
  
  
• IPC Guide to the Personal Health Information Protection Act
  
  
• E-Learning Seminar- OMA CyberMed training on 'Privacy 101'
  
  

• The Health Information Protection Act: a physician primer (June 2004)
  
  
• OMA Submission to Standing Committee on Bill 31 (January 2004)
  
  
• Joint OMA-OHA Response to Application of Federal Privacy Legislation to Health Care (May 2003)
  
  
• OMA Response to The Privacy of Personal Information Act (2002)
  
  
• Response to Bill 95: Ethics and Transparency in Public Matters Act, 2001 (November 2001)
  
  
• OMA Calls for Fundamental Changes to Bill 159 (February 2001)
  
  
• OMA President's Address to the Standing Committee (February 2001)
  
  
• OMA Response to proposed Bill 159 (February 2001)
  
  
• OMA Response to the MOHLTC Consultation Paper "Ontario's Proposed Personal Health Information Privacy Legislation for the Health Sector" (October 2000)
  
  
• OMA Brief re: Proposed Ontario Privacy Act (September 2000)