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Libby Baney, JD, Executive Director of the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP Global), a non-profit organisation dedicated to combatting illegal online pharmacies and counterfeit medicines, provides indepth insight into the work of ASOP Global to combat illegal online pharmacies and counterfeit medicines and its focus for the year ahead. /
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On 1 October 2017, Ontario’s amendments to its Personal Health Information Protection Act (‘PHIPA’) will come into effect, imposing more rigorous breach notification obligations on those responsible for the protection of an individual’s health data. Michael Whitt, Sebastien Gittens and Antonia Alisauskas of Bennett Jones LLP consider the impact of the amendments to PHIPA in the context of the differing breach notification obligations across the Canadian provinces. /
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The Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (‘OECD’) published a report on New Health Technologies: Managing Access, Value and Sustainability on 16 January 2017, which discusses the need for an integrated approach to managing health technology to mitigate clinical and financial risks and provides a set of recommendations for policymakers to embrace the opportunities presented by health technologies whilst appropriately managing the risks. The OECD’s report analyses the progress made through the adoption of health technologies so far and the potential future impact. /
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The global Privacy Sweep 2016, which took place between 11 to 15 April 2016, focused on data protection compliance in the context of the Internet of Things, which included an examination of health devices by some of the 29 data protection authorities taking part.
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In the recent study ‘Every Step You Fake: A Comparative Analysis of Fitness Tracker Privacy and Security,’ Open Effect, a Canadian not-for-profit applied research organisation, analysed data and information gathered from eight fitness tracking applications and devices currently available in Canada. The study seeks to determine what kind of information such systems gather and how that information is treated. The better portion of the study is yet to be published, but the version available (published on 2 February) contains a number of interesting findings. Michael Whitt QC and Graeme Harrison of Bennett Jones LLP discuss the study, which they believe raises numerous legal questions in Canada. /
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Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act (‘PHIPA’) was enacted in November 2004 to provide rules and regulations respecting the collection, use, and disclosure of personal health information. Given changes in the technological environment, Jill M. Daley and Karen Sie of Norton Rose Fulbright examine the need to modernise PHIPA in response to technological developments. /
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The United States Food and Drug Administration (‘FDA’) published draft guidance on the ‘Use of Electronic Informed Consent in Clinical Investigations’ on 9 March. Dr. Phoebe Mounts, Partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, provides an overview of the draft guidance and explains the benefits that broader guidance on the implementation of electronic media in clinical testing could have for the global research community. /
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As of 1 July 2014, Canada has one of the most strict anti-spam regimes in the world. Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation or ‘CASL’ regulates the manner in which email and other electronic messages may be sent into Canada - regardless of where the sender originates. Michael Watts, Partner and Chair of the Health Industry Group at Osler analyses CASL as applied to the pharmaceuticals and healthcare industries and provides a list of key components for compliance. /
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Data from a Fitbit wearable device is to be used for the first time in a personal injury case, after the plaintiff instructed McLeod Law firm to have the data processed in an attempt to illustrate to a Calgary court the detrimental effect an injury has had on her lifestyle.
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Canada’s Health Informatics Association - COACH - publishes best practice guidelines on the privacy and security of personal health information (‘PHI’). Sarah Courtney and Grant Gillis of COACH explain the aim and evolution of its most recent set of Guidelines for the Protection of Health Information. /
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