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A Notice Does Not Notify Unless It Can Be Understood

By Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D.
April 19, 2006

'Ontario has a law that protects your personal health information, including information about you kept at this hospital. We are required to keep your personal health information safe and secure. You have the right to know how we may use and give it out and how you can get access to it.'

 

These three sentences ' short, sweet, simple ' begin the text of a poster called 'Health Information Privacy in our Hospital.' This poster, one of three in a series (which includes 'in our facility' and 'in our office'), and the three accompanying brochures, are the result of an innovative collaboration that has taken an international consensus and turned it into printed products that are garnering great reviews.

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