Privacy of pharmacy prescription records

Zoutman, Dick; Ford, B. Douglas; Bassili, Assil R

doi:10.1503/cmaj.1041052

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“…It is clear that the prescribers can be identified in the prescription record. However, it has been argued that the patient information disclosed in such records is also sufficient to identify patients, [3][4][5] which jeopardizes the confidentiality of Canadians' health information. 3 The Ontario Personal Health Information Privacy Act (PHIPA) defines identifying information as "information that identifies an individual or for which it is reasonably foreseeable in the circumstances that it could be utilized, either alone or with other information, to identify an individual".…”

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Evaluating the Risk of Re-identification of Patients from Hospital Prescription Records

Emam

Dankar

Vaillancourt

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Background: Pharmacies often provide prescription records to private research firms, on the assumption that these records are de-identified (i.e., identifying information has been removed). However, concerns have been expressed about the potential that patients can be re-identified from such records. Recently, a large private research firm requested prescription records from the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), as part of a larger effort to develop a database of hospital prescription records across Canada.

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