Project Overview
There has been little public discussion about some of the most fundamental issues associated with electronic health records. Do you know who owns electronic health records? Is it the hospital? The doctor? The government? The patient? Aside from privacy and ethics, electronic health records concerns governance issues relating to intellectual property rights.
Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino, Director of the Intellectual Property Law & Technology Program at Osgoode Hall Law School (IP Osgoode) and OHLS Law Commission of Ontario Scholar in Residence, is considering the intersection of intellectual property, privacy and ethics issues related to electronic health records in association with the LCO entitled “Diagnosing our Health Records in the Digital World: Towards a Legal Governance Model for the Electronic Health Record in Canada”.
As part of the consultation for this work, experts and professionals working in the areas of health, privacy and intellectual property law began to address governance questions central to developing a transparent, efficient and ethically functioning eHealth system, at a Symposium on Thursday, January 28, 2010, in downtown Toronto, co-hosted by the LCO and IP Osgoode.
Professor D’Agostino is responsible for a number of papers and presentations resulting from her LCO-supported research:
The Background Paper for the Symposium.
Presentation at the Symposium: Diagnosing our Health Records in the Digital World: Towards a Legal Governance Model for the Electronic Health Record in Canada.
“Diagnosing Our Health Records in the Digital World: Towards a Legal Governance Model for the Electronic Health Record in Canada” (with Dionne A. Woodward) (2010) 22 I.P.J. No. 1, 127-154.
The Need for an eHealth Governance Strategy”. OBA Panel on Custodianship of Personal Health Information in the Shared Records/Shared System Environment (Toronto, Ontario, June 23, 2010).
“The Elephant in the Room? Copyright, Licensing and Other Intellectual Property Challenges in Social Media: Focusing on eHealth”. The Institute of Law Clerks of Ontario 20th Annual Conference (Le Quebec City, Quebec May 26-29, 2010).
