The Health Professions Appeal and Review Board’s December 2025 decision in Drake v. Mueller offers a cautionary lesson for Ontario dentists about patient privacy, informed…
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I saw a dentist this week and they asked me: "Can my employee record us at our private work meeting without me knowing?"
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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…
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As an employer in Ontario, it may be necessary to complete a written investigation on a number of issues. You may need to investigate workplace…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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I am going to be writing a series of blog posts all about – you guessed it – dental records. What are they? Who owns…
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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…
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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…
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