September 13, 2022–CCLA is delighted to launch the report Virtual Healthcare Services in Canada: Digital Trails, De-Identified Data and Privacy Implications. Written by a team led by principal investigator Dr. Sheryl Spithoff (Women’s College Hospital), and including CCLA’s Privacy Director Brenda McPhail, this report is a qualitative study of the rapidly-expanding virtual healthcare industry in Canada.
This study, funded by the Contributions Grant Program of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada , examined the privacy landscape on virtual healthcare platforms through a series of qualitative interviews with employees of companies with virtual care platforms, along with academics, consultants or third-party contractors within
