Data Asset Details
Surgical Oncology
- PHIPA Role
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Prescribed Person (PP)
- Statement of Purpose
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The purpose of this data asset is to support health system planning, evaluation, and monitoring of surgical oncology services, as well as quality improvement.
- Need for Personal Health Information
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PHI is required to enable internal disclosure from Ontario Health as Prescribed Entity to Ontario Health as Prescribed Person under the registry of chronic diseases framework, creating linked, patient-level datasets that can subsequently be disclosed to qualifying outlier hospitals for comprehensive root cause analysis and quality improvement purposes.
- Data Types
- Demographic, Facilities, Geographic, Health Services, Financial, Care Provider, Wait time, Ontario Health Derived Cohort, ORG information (death data), Pathology (all cancer and non-cancer related reports), Person
- Data Provider
- Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) -DAD, NACRS, WTIS, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) - OHIP, Ministry of Health (MOH) - RPDB, Hospitals – WTIS, OCR, ePath, Ministry of Government and Consumer Services (MGCS) - OCR, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care - OCR, Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario (POGO) - OCR, Statistics Canada Out of Province - OCR, Notifications from other provinces territories of Ontario residents diagnosed or treated in the notifying provinces territories - OCR
Last Updated: January 06, 2026