Consultant

The Regional Privacy Consultant works in collaboration with the Director, Privacy, Patient Access, and Records to advance the awareness and compliance of Privacy legislation across the region and to reduce additional risks to Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre as the Health Information Network Provider (HINP) of the CARE4 project.

Privacy Compliance

• Oversees maintenance and use of privacy policies/procedures, agreement forms, notices & communication material for the region
• Key contact for staff, physicians, legal counsel, external agencies related to privacy matters across the region
• Leads high‑level investigations, including conducting audits on access as well as reviewing and interpreting audits from other departments and recommending breach levels to the Director; reports to IPC where appropriate; discloses breach to patients and staff where appropriate
• Participates in mediation, arbitration, IPC investigations