Health+Information+(Definitions)

Health Information Act (Alberta Canada)
“health information” means any or all of the following: (i) diagnostic, treatment and care information; (ii) health services provider information; (iii) registration information;

HIPAA Privacy Rule (USA)
//Health information// means any information, whether oral or recorded in any form or medium, that: (1) Is created or received by a health care provider, health plan, public health authority, employer, life insurer, school or university, or health care clearinghouse; and (2) Relates to the past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition of an individual; the provision of health care to an individual; or the past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to an individual.

**Personal Health Information Protection Act (Ontario, Canada)**
“personal health information”, subject to subsections (3) and (4), means identifying information about an individual in oral or recorded form, if the information, (a) relates to the physical or mental health of the individual, including information that consists of the health history of the individual’s family, (b) relates to the providing of health care to the individual, including the identification of a person as a provider of health care to the individual, (c) is a plan of service within the meaning of the //Long-Term Care Act, 1994// for the individual, (d) relates to payments or eligibility for health care, or eligibility for coverage for health care, in respect of the individual, (e) relates to the donation by the individual of any body part or bodily substance of the individual or is derived from the testing or examination of any such body part or bodily substance, (f) is the individual’s health number, or (g) identifies an individual’s substitute decision-maker. 2004, c. 3, Sched. A, s. 4 (1); 2007, c. 10, Sched. H, s. 2. (2) In this section, “identifying information” means information that identifies an individual or for which it is reasonably foreseeable in the circumstances that it could be utilized, either alone or with other information, to identify an individual. 2004, c. 3, Sched. A, s. 4 (2). (3) Personal health information about an individual includes identifying information about the individual that is not personal health information described in subsection (1) but that is contained in a record that contains personal health information described in that subsection about the individual. 2004, c. 3, Sched. A, s. 4 (3). (4) Personal health information does not include identifying information contained in a record that is in the custody or under the control of a health information custodian if, (a) the identifying information contained in the record relates primarily to one or more employees or other agents of the custodian; and (b) the record is maintained primarily for a purpose other than the provision of health care or assistance in providing health care to the employees or other agents. 2004, c. 3, Sched. A, s. 4 (4).
 * Identifying information**
 * Mixed records**
 * Exception**

Health Information Protection Act (Saskatchewan, Canada)
“personal health information” means, with respect to an individual, whether living or deceased: (i) information with respect to the physical or mental health of the individual; (ii) information with respect to any health service provided to the individual; (iii) information with respect to the donation by the individual of any body part or any bodily substance of the individual or information derived from the testing or examination of a body part or bodily substance of the individual; (iv) information that is collected: (A) in the course of providing health services to the individual; or (B) incidentally to the provision of health services to the individual; or (v) registration information;