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The Privacy Advisor | The Innovators: University Health Network, Canada Health Infoway and ID Experts Receive 2014 HP-IAPP Privacy Innovation Awards Related reading: A view from Brussels: EDPS sends signal on data transfers 

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The 12th Annual HP-IAPP Privacy Innovation Awards were awarded at the recently concluded IAPP Privacy Academy and CSA Congress, honoring three unique programs and services that both integrate global privacy and data protection and provide value for the private and public sector alike. The winners are University Health Network; Canada Health Infoway and its Health Information Privacy Group, and ID Experts.

“HP-IAPP Privacy Innovation Awards celebrate advancement, vision and originality,” explained IAPP President and CEO Trevor Hughes, CIPP. “The IAPP is proud to recognize these organizations for their commitment to innovation and to the privacy industry.”

HP Vice President and CPO Scott Taylor, CIPP/US, said the company “is pleased to sponsor this award and recognize these key privacy advancements in organizations large and small.”

Recognized during the closing general session at the IAPP Privacy Academy and CSA Congress, representatives from each of those organizations shared a bit about what they do, and you can hear from them in their own words in the videos included here:

University Health Network was recognized in the large organization category for its lead role in the development of ConnectingGTA, which enhances the patient and clinician experience by providing point-of-care access to the data they need from across the care continuum. Working in partnership with eHealth Ontario, Canada Health Infoway and participating organizations, ConnectingGTA is integrating electronic patient data to pave the way for future innovation in healthcare.

Canada Health Infoway and the Infoway-sponsored Health Information Privacy Group (HIPG) were recognized in the small organization category for the landmark paper, Privacy and EHR Information Flows in Canada—Common understandings of the Pan-Canadian Health Information Privacy Group. HIPG is a unique multidisciplinary and interjurisdictional working group with 14 members who represent Canada’s health ministries and eHealth agencies. HIPG’s goal is to develop pan-Canadian common approaches and nontechnical tools to address privacy issues to support information flow in digital health systems across jurisdictions.

ID Experts was honored in the innovative privacy technology category for RADAR, a SaaS incident response management platform that helps users evaluate and manage data security and privacy incidents while facilitating compliance with federal and state breach notification.

The winners came from a broad field of entries and were selected by a panel of privacy experts.

As Hughes put it, “In addition to those formally recognized with this award, we saw an array of programs and services that benefit the industry. This is a true testament to the interest we are seeing in online privacy.”

Taylor added, “These organizations are true innovators in developing privacy initiatives that benefit their consumers and the privacy community.”

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  • comment James • Sep 30, 2014
    Canada Health Infoway? You've got to be joking. They've accomplished absolutely nothing, despite being given billions in funding. Health informaticians have panned their approach as a dated, unworkable "Soviet-style" command and control architecture. 
    Lest you think I am joking, see <a href="http://www.cmaj.ca/content/early/2011/02/22/cmaj.109-3799.full.pdf+html?maxtoshow=&amp;hits=10&amp;RESULTFORMAT=&amp;fulltext=webster&amp;searchid=1&amp;FIRSTINDEX=0&amp;sortspec=date&amp;resourcetype=HWCIT" rel="nofollow"> this recent article </a> in the CMAJ. eHealth Ontario is even worse. (For more on its scandals and incompetence, just type 'eHealth Ontario' into the search field of the Toronto Star). The only reason these organizations can be said to protect privacy is because they don't produce anything that works (e.g., OLIS).