Privacy Policy

Alberta Health Services (AHS) respects your confidentiality and privacy. Your information is collected, used, disclosed and protected according to the provisions of provincial and federal legislation. Your health information is collected by AHS in accordance with section 20 of the Health Information Act (HIA). The purpose of this collection is primarily for:

• Providing health services
• Determining eligibility for health services
• Processing payments for health services
• Conducting research
• Providing for health services provider education, and
• Internal management purposes.

Information will be collected directly from you, except in the limited circumstances where we are authorized by the HIA to indirectly collect such information.