Responsibilities:
- The Privacy Specialist is responsible for the delivery of the privacy and authorities analysis, including management of issues and risks to ensure successful and on-time completion of deliverables.
- Gather and develop requirements in order to create and maintain the privacy and authorities analysis.
- Articulate and prioritize issues and risks and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
- Conducting/Completing Privacy Impact Assessments and associated documentation.
- Providing Privacy Consultation on a diverse range of complex, multi-stakeholder health privacy issues and Information Technology (IT) initiatives.
- Identify and assess privacy risks, including developing risk mitigation plans.
- Create or inform the creation of data flow diagrams and associated privacy controls and compliance requirements.
- Reviewing and advising on agreements, including data sharing agreements.
- Developing privacy requirements for new or changing components.
- Providing privacy advisory and support to the product team.
- Expert knowledge of privacy policies and legislative processes.
- Health Protection and Promotion Act (HPPA), Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) and Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) and associated Health Information Custodian (HIC) requirements.
- Knowledge of immunization workflows and associated authorities models will be of significant benefit.
- Certifications like Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) is an asset.
- Project Management, or related professional designation (PMP) an asset.
- Excellent Communication skills both verbal and written, and strong stakeholder engagement skills.
- Past experience with jurisdictional public health programs (example: Immunizations) will be of significant benefit.
- Minimum 3 years health privacy experience conducting privacy impact assessments (PIAs) on medium to high complexity projects. 20 Points
- Minimum 5 years direct operational level privacy experience in a health sector and/or IT environment or both. 20 Points
- Minimum 5 years experience in developing privacy policies and procedures, requirements, or controls. 20 Points
- Minimum 5 years experience drafting and reviewing privacy requirements for data sharing agreements. 15 Points
- Familiarity with the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA), and requirements related to Health Information Network Provider (HINP) and Electronic Service Provider (ESP). 10 Points
- Familiarity with Application Programming Interface (API) functionality and management. 7.5 Points
- Familiarity with Electronic Medical Record (EMR) or Pharmacy Management System (PMS) infrastructure, design, and data flows. 7.5 Points
- A preliminary privacy and authorities analysis to determine the achievement of the objectives and smooth and timely execution of the project including.
- Confirmation of the impacted authorities to permit the collection/contribution of administered vaccinations from all intended health care provider types (hospitals, primary care, pharmacies, public health, long term care etc.).
- Confirmation of the data purpose to support the direct delivery of health care (EHR purposes).
- Confirmation of authority to disclose of the same data to those health care providers accessing the EHR is permitted.
- Documentation of the provisions of patients rights to withdraw consent for the disclosure of their data submitted to the EHR by way of a consent directive are maintained.
- The determination of the custodianship of the data submitted to the EHR.
- Documentation of authorities required to disclose the data from the EHR to an immunization registry / repository.
- Documentation of all other requirements the Prescribed Organization are subject to by its regulator can be achieved.
- Over the duration of the engagement, the Privacy Specialist will support work already in progress, as well as deliver a Privacy Impact Assessment on the Immunization Repository.
- Work with the project and product teams on risk mitigation of PIA findings as required under PHIPA.
- Support work related to updating and/or developing new agreements.