Privacy Information

The first step is to locate your Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to ensure it is up to date and reflects your current clinic environment. 

Prerequisite: Your clinic must have a PIA that reflects the current clinic environment to participate in CII/CPAR.

Use this PIA Self Assessment tool to determine if your PIA needs updates. A list of PIA consultants is available if you need assistance updating your documents. 

The OIPC has a registry of all accepted PIAs and if you have misplaced your PIA number, it is searchable on their website.

CII falls under the Alberta Netcare umbrella which is covered by the Health Information Act (HIA).

Alberta Health has filed a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) for the CII project and the clinic custodian will be asked to sign an endorsement letter during onboarding with the eHealth team.

The Health Information Act (HIA) requires providers to have the information from a Health Collection Notice available to patients, and it can be in the form of a poster, on clinic TV screens, website notices, on patient registration forms, etc.

• Poster format available here: English; Punjabi; Arabic; Spanish

Providers are not required to have direct conversations with patients about CII/CPAR.

• Support tools are available here: patient brochure, custodian script, patient FAQ, privacy & security FAQ 

There are important PIA considerations for live clinics when they switch EMRs. Please read this FAQ for more information.