I'm honored to accept this award on
behalf of canada health infoway and the
health information privacy group this
group known as the hip g is a working
group of health ministries and e health
agencies from across canada who
collaborated on a landmark paper privacy
and EHR information flows in canada the
paper sets out 53 common understandings
that support the privacy protective
disclosure of electronic health
information across Canada's 14
jurisdictions the work extensive 32
meetings over four years and the impact
enormous it is lessening Canadians
concerns over privacy and electronic
health records it is informing Health
Information legislation canada-wide it
is moving our health agenda forward and
ultimately it is engendering trust as
one of our members so aptly put it for
an interoperable electronic health
record to come true in this country we
need to be able to understand and to
trust one another systems and privacy
frameworks and the hip G is the key to
that understanding and trust our work
continues and we hope that this privacy
protective trust model will be of value
to others thank you again for
recognizing canada health infoway and
the health information privacy group
with this award
you