R-22.1 - Act respecting health and social services information

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3. In this Act,

“confidentiality incident” means access to information or any other use or communication of information not authorized by law, the loss of information or any other breach of its protection;

“institution” means an institution governed by the Act respecting health services and social services (chapter S-4.2) or the Act respecting health services and social services for Cree Native persons (chapter S-5);

“service provider” means a natural person who offers health services or social services within a health and social services body or who provides such a person with technical or administrative support services;

“research project” means a process aimed at developing knowledge, in particular for innovation purposes, by means of structured study or systematic investigation;

“technological product or service” means equipment, an application or a service required to collect, keep, use or communicate information, such as a database or an information system, a telecommunications system, technological infrastructure, software or a computer component of medical equipment.

For the purposes of this Act, a reference to the offering of health services or social services is also a reference to the provision of such services.

2023, c. 5, s. 3.