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(Definition of) Personal Health Information

‘Personal Health Information’ is spoken or written information that:

1. relates to the physical or mental health of the individual, including the individual’s family medical history
2. relates to the individual’s health care
3. is an individual health care plan, according to the Long Term Care Act, 1994
4. relates to the individual’s healthcare payments or eligibility for healthcare
5. relates to an individual’s donation of any body part or bodily substance, or is derived from testing of such body part or substance
6. is the individual’s health number, or
7. identifies a provider of healthcare to the individual or a substitute decision-maker of the individual

Information is ‘identifying’ when it is personal or it is reasonable to believe that it could be utilized, either alone or with other information, to identify the individual.