Colonoscopy
- PHIPA Role
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Prescribed Person (PP)
- Statement of Purpose
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The purpose of this data asset is to support health system planning, evaluation, and monitoring of colonoscopy services, as well as quality improvement.
- Need for Personal Health Information
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PHI is required to enable internal disclosure from Ontario Health as Prescribed Entity to Ontario Health as Prescribed Person under the registry of chronic diseases framework, creating linked, patient-level datasets that can subsequently be disclosed to qualifying physicians for comprehensive root cause analysis and quality improvement purposes.
- Test Label
- Test Tag EN 1
- Why De-identified and/or Aggregate Information will not Serve the Identified Purpose
- PHI-level data is required for data linkage., This has been decommissioned and is being retained in server backups for approximately one year.
- Data Types
- Facilities, Geographic, Health Services, Financial, Care Provider, Demographic, Wait time, Ontario Health Derived Cohort, ORG information (death data), Pathology (all cancer and non-cancer related reports), Person, Hospital Colonoscopy records, ColonCancerCheck (CCC) fecal immunochemical tests records
- Data Provider
- Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) - OHIP, OCCC, Ministry of Health (MOH) - RPDB, CHDB, CPDB, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) -DAD, NACRS, Hospitals – OCR, GI Endo DSP, Physicians- GI Endo DSP, Laboratories – OCR, FIT DSP, Health Care Providers- FIT DSP, Ministry of Government and Consumer Services (MGCS) - OCR, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care - OCR, Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario (POGO) - OCR, Statistics Canada Out of Province – OCR, PCCF+, Notifications from other provinces territories of Ontario residents diagnosed or treated in the notifying provinces territories - OCR
Last Updated: April 21, 2026
