R-22.1 - Act respecting health and social services information

Section 3 Disposition versions

2024-07-01

3. In this Act,

“confidentiality incident” means access to information or any other use or communication of information not authorized by law, the loss of information or any other breach of its protection;

“institution” means an institution governed by the Act respecting health services and social services (chapter S-4.2) or the Act respecting health services and social services for Cree Native persons (chapter S-5);

“service provider” means a natural person who offers health services or social services within a health and social services body or who provides such a person with technical or administrative support services;

“research project” means a process aimed at developing knowledge, in particular for innovation purposes, by means of structured study or systematic investigation;

“technological product or service” means equipment, an application or a service required to collect, keep, use or communicate information, such as a database or an information system, a telecommunications system, technological infrastructure, software or a computer component of medical equipment.

For the purposes of this Act, a reference to the offering of health services or social services is also a reference to the provision of such services.

2023, c. 5, s. 3.

This section is in force except, in the definition of “institution” provided for in the first paragraph, with respect to the Act respecting health services and social services for Cree Native persons (chapter S-5), where that definition is not necessary for the purposes of sections 38 and 38.1 of the Public Health Act (chapitre S-2.2). See Order in Council 946-2024 dated 5 June 2024, (2024) 156 G.O. 2, 2123.

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3. In this Act,

“confidentiality incident” means access to information or any other use or communication of information not authorized by law, the loss of information or any other breach of its protection;

“institution” means an institution governed by the Act respecting health services and social services (chapter S-4.2) or the Act respecting health services and social services for Cree Native persons (chapter S-5);

“service provider” means a natural person who offers health services or social services within a health and social services body or who provides such a person with technical or administrative support services;

“research project” means a process aimed at developing knowledge, in particular for innovation purposes, by means of structured study or systematic investigation;

“technological product or service” means equipment, an application or a service required to collect, keep, use or communicate information, such as a database or an information system, a telecommunications system, technological infrastructure, software or a computer component of medical equipment.

For the purposes of this Act, a reference to the offering of health services or social services is also a reference to the provision of such services.

2023, c. 5, s. 3.