PEI Health Information Act

A custodian may disclose personal health information collected in the province to a person outside it without the individual's consent "only in the circumstances described in subsections 23(7), (10) and (13) or as specified in the regulations" (s. 35). One of those circumstances is disclosure "to an information manager in accordance with this Act" (s. 23(13)(f)).

A custodian may give personal health information to an information manager "for the purpose of processing, storing or destroying" it or for information technology services (s. 42(1)), under a written agreement that protects it (s. 42(2)). The information manager must meet the same protection, retention and destruction requirements as the custodian (s. 43).