The Osgoode Certificate in Privacy Law and Information Management in Healthcare

Osgoode Professional Development is the lifelong learning arm of Osgoode Hall Law School, one of Canada’s leading law schools.

We provide a uniquely broad and flexible range of interdisciplinary graduate-level legal education to professionals with and without law degrees.

What You’ll Learn

1. Demystifying the regulatory landscape: PHIPA, PIPEDA, MFIPPA, FIPPA and other targeted or sector specific laws (such as Public Hospitals Act, Mental Health Act, Health Protection and Promotion Act, Long-Term Care Homes Act etc.) and Privacy Act

2. Strategies and tactics for lost or stolen devices, including best practices for storing data

3. Responding to privacy breaches

4. Creating effective consent directives

5. Managing data sharing agreements with vendors and other patient services

6. Best practices for effective data management and ensuring data integrity

7. Determining and minimizing risk: medical devices and other sources of patient information

8. Conducting privacy impact assessments

9. Managing threat risk assessments

10. Understanding how to meet audit requirements and managing the costs of data verification

11. Guidelines for cross border data sharing (particularly in cloud-based services)

Assessment Criteria

In order to obtain the Certificate, the learner must:

1. complete/attend all modules; and
2. successfully complete an online assessment, obtaining at least 80%.

Estimated learning effort

Approximately 35 hours of learning effort, spread over multiple weeks.

LEARN MORE