Access to Your Health Information

Are you familiar with Québec Health Booklet?

This online service enables you to:

• See your list of medications you get from the pharmacy
• See your lab test results 
• See your medical imaging reports
• See the list of medical services you have received that are paid on a fee-for-service basis
• See the list of health workers who have consulted your health information

Find out more avout Québec Health Booklet.

You must register at Québec Health Booklet to access your personal data

And Quebec Health Record?

The Québec Health Record (QHR) is a communication platform that facilitates the secure and timely sharing of health information between authorized organizations and stakeholders. It supports their delivery of health services for the benefit of users.

Authorized providers may access and consult the information in your QHR. Therefore, the QHR cannot be accessed by all health and social services providers.

When you consult a health and social services professional (family medicine group, CLSC, emergency room, etc.), your health information is entered in the local record kept at each location where you consult. Some, not all, of the information entered in the local record is automatically shared and stored in the QHR. Only authorized persons at the location where you consulted have access to the information recorded in your local file.

You cannot access the DSQ, but the healthcare professionals and social services professionals you consult can.

You do not have to register with the QHR. Unless you refuse, authorized health information is automatically and systematically collected in the QHR. Visit the following web page for more information about the DSQ.

To obtain a copy of the file created by a physician:

You must submit a written request and provide proof of your identity at one of the following locations:

a) If you consulted the physician at a healthcare facility

Your request must be addressed to the archives department of that institution.

b) If you consulted them in their office, a family medicine group (GMF), or a specialized medical center (CMS)

Your request should be addressed to the privacy officer at the location where you consulted them.

c) If it is an inactive, retreated, strucked off or deceased physician

Consult the directory of physicians and residents to find out where the clinical records of his former patients are kept.

The “File transfer” section in the physician’s profile will indicate to whom and where to send a request for a copy of the file. For example:

You can also call the Collège at 514-933-4441 or send an email to info@cmq.org to obtain this information.

It is possible that the clinical records formerly held by this physician have been entrusted to the College. 

You can obtain a copy free of charge by completing the online request form. Here is the procedure:

1. Create or log in to a secure account

• If you do not yet have a secure account on our site, create one here: Creating an account
• If you already have a secure account, log in here: Log in
  
  2. Fill out the form

In the Available Forms section of your account, select Request for Clinical Records.

3. Upload the required document

You will need to provide a copy of the health insurance card or signed consent from the patient to whom the requested clinical records belong.

Certain conditions apply to obtaining the records of a deceased person. Upon receipt of the completed form, a member of the College staff will contact the person who made the request to obtain additional information and specify the documents that must be provided in support of the request. See the page L’accès au dossier clinique d’un patient décédé [Accessing the clinical records of a deceased patient] for more details.

Part of the text has been translated using artificial intelligence.

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Source:

• Act respecting health and social services information, sections 32 to 37