A consent directive gives patients the option of restricting access to the personal health information in their electronic health record. This means that when a clinician tries to access the record, a warning banner is displayed, indicating that some or all of the record is blocked. Consent directives are placed and removed through Service Ontario. If you have express consent from the patient or their substitute decision maker, you can temporarily override consent. Please note that when you do so, anyone under the same authority will be able to view that patient’s data for four hours.
