Resolution	Recent Developments
A10-5 Endorsement and Implementation of a Post-Public Health Research, Education And Development (PHRED) Knowledge To Action (K2A) Model THAT the Association of Local Public Health Agencies (alPHa) endorse the Description of Post-PHRED Knowledge to Action (K2A) Model: Conceptual Description of Model Attributes, June 2007	October 8, 2010 Response received from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care outlining work that is underway to transfer the PHRED functions to the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion. Please click here to read. August 19 2010 alPHa letter sent to the President / CEO of the OAHPP and the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care introducing the Resolution. Please click here to read.
A10-2 - Privacy and Security of Personal Health Information THAT the Government of Ontario takes the following steps, as soon as possible, to improve the privacy and security of personal health information (PHI) that is collected, used, disclosed, stored and disposed by Ontario’s public health system, including local public health agencies and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care: Ensures that Health Information Custodians continually use secure and encrypted mobile devices and media for the collection and storage of PHI and that Custodians’ corresponding information practices and privacy and security policies and procedures are properly aligned with this requirement, Ensures that Custodians limit the collection of PHI, including health card numbers, to that which is necessary to fulfill the identified purposes under the Act, in consultation with the IPC and other key stakeholders, Ensures there is greater clarity respecting the role of Custodians who use provincial information systems that collect and store PHI that can be accessed by local public health agencies and provincial ministries, in consultation with the IPC and/or other key stakeholders, Ensures that provincial Custodians conduct privacy impact assessments, on current and new provincial public health information systems, in consultation with the IPC and other key stakeholders, and that such assessments are shared with local Custodians, so that they can determine whether PHIPA requirements regarding their information systems, have been met, Ensures that the Health Protection and Promotion Act and PHIPA are strengthened such that Custodians are empowered to give clear directions to their agents with respect to the privacy and security of PHI, including the completion of privacy and security training and an attestation to that effect, and agents are required to comply with such directions, Ensures that Custodians and their agents receive ongoing education and training with respect to their powers and duties under PHIPA, in consultation with the IPC, Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion and other key stakeholders, Ensures that Custodians share PHI related privacy and security best practices, including information practice notices, policies, procedures and templates, across the public health system, Ensures Custodians receive ongoing adequate resources to ensure that they and their agents are able to fulfill their duties under PHIPA	October 28 2010 Response received to the correspondence notifying the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care of this and four other 2010 alPHa resolutions. Please click here to read August 19 2010 alPHa has sent a letter to the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care introducing this and four other 2010 Resolutions. Please click here to read.
A07-8, Ontario Congenital Anomalies Surveillance System alPHa urges the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to establish an Ontario congenital anomaly surveillance system by working in partnership with the Ontario Ministries of Children and Youth Services, Government Services (Office of the Registrar General) and Health Promotion, and members of SPWG including those from the Niday Perinatal System, the Ontario Maternal Multiple Marker Screening Database, and the Fetal Alert Network.	October 31, 2007 Letter written to the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care introducing this and several other resolutions passed at the 2007 alPHa AGM. Please click here to read. November 7 2007  Letter written to the Chair of the Canadian Congenital Anomalies Surveillance Network informing her of the resolution. Please click here to read.
A07-9, Cancer Care Ontario Support for Boards of Health alPHa urges Cancer Care Ontario to develop the following: a clear process whereby boards of health may obtain timely data for areas smaller than the health unit level; mechanisms and/or workshops to train public health epidemiologists on cancer analysis techniques; and a forum by which boards of health and CCO can share findings and data quality issues.