Glossary
Assistive Devices Program (ADP)
Provides consumer centered support and funding to Ontario residents who have long-term physical disabilities and to provide access to personalized assistive devices appropriate for the individual’s basic needs¹⁷.
Electronic medical Records (EmR)
Is a computer-based client record specific to a single clinical practice, such as a family health team or group practice18. EMRs include devices that contain Personal Health Information (PHI), such as:
Express Consent
Health Information Custodian
Home Care Company
Implied Consent
Independent Practice
Identifying Information
Information that identifies an individual or for which it is reasonably foreseeable in the circumstances that it could be utilized, either alone or with other information, to identify an individual.
Personal health Information (PhI) –
The physical or mental health of an individual
The provision of health care to the individual
The individual’s health card number
The identification of the individual’s substitute decision maker (if applicable)
Reasonable Grounds
Registered Respiratory Therapists (RRTs)
Has been issued a General Certificate of Registration because they have met all academic requirements and has successfully completed the registration examination or evaluation approved by the CRTO, or met the registration requirements under the Ontario Labour Mobility Act, 2009. If a Member holds a General Certificate of Registration, they must use the designation RRT and may use “Registered Respiratory Therapist” or “Respiratory Therapist” as their professional title.
Standards of Practice
Described the requirements that all RRTs must meet for professional practice. The Standards contain practice parameters which should be considered by all Ontario Respiratory Therapists in the care of their clients and in the practice of the profession.
Substitute Decision-maker (SDm)
Terms, Conditions and Limitations
Third Party Payer
any organization/agency (other than the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP), or self-payment by the patient) that fully or partial funds the health care services that a client receives (e.g., the MOHLTC’s Assistive Devices Program; private insurance companies).
How this Guide Links to the Professional Misconduct Regulation
1. BUSINESS PRACTICES
19. Submitting an account or charge for services that a member knows is false or misleading.
20. Charging a fee that is excessive in relation to the service rendered.
21. Failing to disclose the fee schedule or payment structure prior to delivery of services or failing to provide the patient or patient with sufficient time to refuse the treatment and arrange for alternative services.
22. Failing to itemize an account for fees charged by the member for professional services rendered,
i. if requested to do so by the patient or patient or the person or agency who is to pay, in whole or in part, for the services, or
ii. if the account includes a commercial laboratory fee.
23. Selling any debt owed to the member for professional services; this does not include the use of credit cards to pay for professional services.
i How changing patient expectations will impact your practice. http://practicemanagement.dentalproductsrepoRT.com/aRTicle/how-changing-patient-expectations-will-impact-your-practice?page=0,1 (July, 2018)
ii CRTO Standards of Practice, Standard 1 – Business Practices
iii Ibid.
How this Guide Links to the Advertising Regulation
(1) In this Part, an advertisement with respect to a member’s practice includes an advertisement for gases used for medical purposes, equipment, supplies or services that includes a reference to the member’s name.
(2) An advertisement with respect to a member’s practice must not contain,
(a) anything that is false or misleading;
(b) anything that, because of its nature, cannot be verified;
(c) a claim of expertise in any area of practice, or with respect to any procedure or treatment, unless the advertisement discloses the basis of the expertise;
(d) an endorsement other than an endorsement by an organization that is known to have expertise relevant to the subject-matter of the endorsement;
(e) a testimonial by a patient or patient or former patient or patient or by a friend or relative of a patient or patient or former patient or patient; or
(f) anything that promotes or is likely to promote excessive or unnecessary use of services.
(3) An advertisement must be readily comprehensible to the persons to whom it is directed.
(4) A member must not permit his or her name to be used in an advertisement that contravenes subsection (2) or (3).
(5) A member must not advertise by initiating contact, or causing or allowing any person to initiate contact, with potential patients or patients or their personal representatives either in person or by telephone, in an attempt to solicit business.
(6) Despite subsection (5), a member may advertise by initiating contact with a potential patient or a personal representative of a potential patient if the potential patient does not personally use or consume the gases, equipment, supplies or services that are the subject of the advertisement.
(7) A member must not appear in, or permit the use of his or her name in, an advertisement that implies, or could reasonably be interpreted to imply, that the professional expertise of the member is relevant to the subject-matter of the advertisement if it is not relevant. O. Reg. 596/94, s. 23.
FOOTNOTES
17. MOHLTC. Retrieved from http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/pro/programs/adp/
18. Canada Health Infoway. Retrieved from https://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/solutions/digital-healthfoundation/electronic-medical-records
19. Personal Health Information Protection Act. (2004). Available from: http://www.elaws.gov.on.ca/html/statutes/english/elaws_statutes_04p03_e.htm