Record Retention
Risk Classification
Acts & Regulations
100

Paper documentation containing information that is not confidential or sensitive in nature should be disposed of by placing it here.

What is the recycling bin?

100

This classification describes published materials such as pamphlets, newsletters and in some cases annual reports.

What is Public?

100

The collection, use and disclosure of health information by practice custodians is governed by provisions of this Act.

What is the Health Information Act (HIA)?

200

Confidential or sensitive information are disposed of using this method.

What is shredding?

200

These are administrative records that can be made available to public upon request (e.g. policies, reports, etc.).

What is Internal Use?

200

A subset of the Health Information Act that provides further guidance and clarification for the contents of the Act.

What is the Health Information Regulation?

300

Following termination of an employee, the employee record, in hard copy or digital format, is retained for this many years. 

What is 5 years?

300

Information describing personal health and registration information, employee information, or information given in confidence or under privilege.

What is Confidential?

300

It is the name of the officer that must be designated by a business to satisfy section 62(1) of the Health Information Act.

What is the Privacy Officer?

400

Transitory records, such as analog x-rays, should be identifies, converted and this, after the actions to which they relate are completed.

What is destroyed?

400

Information describing practice security systems, access codes, financial records, and could harm staff or the corporation if revealed.

What is Restricted?

400

The Health Information Act instructs businesses to conduct this in order to increase awareness of requirements and activities associated with Protection of Personal Health Information.

What is Training?

500

Health records of employees exposed to hazardous materials shall be retained for a minimum of this many years. The Israelites in the desert could empathize.

What is 40 years?

500

The purpose of this policy is to establish criteria, standards, and procedures for identifying and managing confidential information within security zones.

What is the Information Security Classification Policy?

500

The collection, use and disclosure of this type of information by all staff is governed by the provisions of the Health Information Act.

What is Health?