Purchasing a practice is one the largest and most important purchases many dentists are going to make. In addition, the expenses and debt repayments are…
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Starting on January 1, 2019, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada will begin enforcing Guidelines for obtaining meaningful consent (click here to read the guidelines yourself), which…
As you probably know, Canada’s anti-spam legislation came into effect on July 1, 2014. Since then, businesses in Canada have a duty to understand and…
The recent case of Lopez v. Dr. M. Douris Dentistry Professional Corporation, [2015] ONSC 3675 exemplifies why dentists looking to purchase the patient records of…
The Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (“PHIPA“) imposes obligations on dentists with respect to collecting, using and disclosing “personal health information”. By way of…
So this is a second of a series of blog posts that I’m writing about dental records. In my first blog, I discussed what dental…
I am going to be writing a series of blog posts all about – you guessed it – dental records. What are they? Who owns…
Here’s an interesting case I came across out of B.C. It involved a dentist claiming that his charts were stolen by another dentist. The Court…
I’ve previously written about dental records here. But every now and then it’s worthwhile to re-visit a topic to reiterate important legal principles. So here…