Ministry of Health
Data Stewardship Committee
The Data Stewardship Committee (DSC) is established under section 12 of the E-Health (Personal Health Information Access and Protection of Privacy) Act. DSC members are appointed by the Minister of Health, and are responsible for managing the disclosure of information contained in a Health Information Bank (HIB) or prescribed Ministry of Health database.
Anyone seeking data contained in a HIB or prescribed ministry database for planning or research purposes must submit a request to the DSC through the Data Stewardship Secretariat. If the DSC approves the request, the HIB administrator may disclose the requested information, subject to any conditions that the DSC or the administrator set.
The DSC has the authority to exempt HIBs from providing an otherwise-mandatory disclosure directives service. Disclosure directives are written instructions by individual patients to block access to their own personal health information contained in a HIB.
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