Confidentiality Policy

Halton Healthcare Services considers any type of health care information that can be
linked to an identifiable person confidential. Accordingly, all clinical information collected in support of the treatment provided to patients at HHS will be disclosed only to authorize individuals who require this information to ensure that the best possible care is provided. As students you are considered within the "circle of care" when caring for patients.

Halton Healthcare Services also provides information and communication technology to its staff, physicians, volunteers and affiliates for the purpose of performing their job functions. HHS and all users of these systems share a responsibility to ensure the information they contain is protected from unauthorized access, loss, corruption, theft or destruction. Access to many of the information and communications systems in use at HHS requires individual authentication parameters (user codes, passwords) which define the user's access privileges and ensures unauthorized parties cannot access the systems. This policy sets out the conditions under which users are granted access, and defines the procedure that is used to accomplish this. We ask, if not already done, to sign the Confidentiality Policy and Access to Information Technology Policy and return to Joan Jickling in Nursing Administration.