Alberta Healthcare PIAs Done Right The First Time
Avoid delays, rejected submissions, lost productivity, and compliance gaps. Brightsquid has completed 1,000+ healthcare PIAs for Alberta clinics.
Why Clinics Choose Brightsquid
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Brightsquid has been our data privacy advisor for years. They've been a real asset when preparing our submissions to the OIPC. Highly recommend them to any healthcare practice that takes privacy seriously.
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I have dealt with Brightsquid to assist with my PIA. This process was made very easy and seamless with the team that supported me. I highly recommend this company to get your PIA done!!
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Working with Brightsquid helps navigate through privacy and compliance while running a profitable and efficient practice. They're always collaborative and come up with solutions that drive business forward. Instead of making compliance a hurdle, it becomes a tool.
Established Expertise:
There’s no delay in while you figure out how your operations fit into the HIA. The Brightsquid team of certified healthcare privacy experts have written over 1000 Privacy Impact Assessments and can begin addressing your requirements right away.
Reduced Compliance risk:
Our team understands the rules and how to craft policies and procedures that prevent known privacy risks.
Ongoing Privacy Support:
Privacy compliance is more than just paperwork. Privacy programs need regular maintenance and active adaptation to the evolving landscape. Every Brightsquid PIA also includes practical privacy compliance training for clinic teams.
What Kind Of Clinics Does Brightsquid Support?
Any clinic anywhere can, and should, complete a PIA.
Clinics in 11 disciplines in Alberta are required by law to complete, submit a Privacy Impact Assessment. We write PIAs and provide privacy compliance support to these types of Clinics and more:
- Regulated members of the Alberta Dental Association and College
- Regulated members of the College of Alberta Denturists
- Regulated members of the College of Registered Dental Hygienists of Alberta
- Regulated members of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Province of Alberta
- Regulated members of the Alberta College of Pharmacists
- Regulated members of the Alberta College of Optometrists
- Registered members of the Alberta Opticians Association
- Regulated members of the Alberta College and Association of Chiropractors
- Registered members of the Alberta Association of Midwives
- Registered members of the Alberta Podiatry Association
- Regulated members of the College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)?
A Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is a structured process that evaluates risks in how your clinic handles and manages sensitive patient information at every touchpoint. A PIA helps spot vulnerabilities in your data management processes before they turn into breaches. It also helps your clinic stay updated and in sync with evolving compliance and legal requirements. More than just a regulatory checkbox, a PIA serves as a proactive risk management tool that lays the framework for compliant operations and the prevention of privacy breaches. Brightsquid’s PIAs are customized to reflect the unique data collection, use, and disclosure processes and configurations in your clinic.
How often should we update our PIA?
PIAs need to reflect current operations. It is always a good idea to review you clinic’s PIA annually. Significant changes to how you collect, use, disclose, and dispose of patient information require an amendment to your PIA. Changes to who is responsible for the patient data in your control also need to be reflected in your PIA. Some new technology and process implementations may require a new Privacy Impact Assessment specific to that project. A PIA update may also be necessary when new privacy regulations are introduced. Help with PIA updates for internal changes, as well as regulatory updates, is included for clinics subscribed to Brightsquid Privacy Support Services.
What makes Brightsquid’s PIA service different?
At Brightsquid, our Privacy Impact Assessments are written by a team of certified privacy experts with decades of healthcare privacy compliance experience. Our team-based approach means that you can always get answers to your questions, and the shared experience provides greater flexibility in how your PIA is written to accommodate existing operations as much as possible. A PIA is the foundation for ongoing privacy compliance and breach prevention. That’s why continued privacy support to address questions around vendor selection, software implementation, breach response support and guidance, and more are included with every PIA we write.
Who completes the PIA at Brightsquid?
Our PIAs are completed by privacy professionals with deep knowledge of privacy regulations and how they relate to healthcare clinic operations. The Brightsquid Privacy team has written more than 1000 PIAs for clinics and the organizations that support them.
Get Your Clinic’s Privacy Impact Assessment Started Today!
Speak to our experts to schedule your Privacy Impact Assessment and safeguard your clinic’s healthcare privacy compliance!!