Canadian Health Information: A Practical Legal and Risk Management Guide, 4th Edition provides a comprehensive and insightful review of the broad range of legal and practical issues that relate to health information. While the book focuses on Canadian health information, it references U.S. and E.U. legislation and regulations, such as the GDPR. Much of the material applies to the U.S. and other countries, although legal precedents and fine points will vary across borders.
Read a review of the book here.
This timely publication offers invaluable insight into outbreaks and pandemics from a variety of perspectives – historical, economic, societal, ethical, legal, and medical – while providing practical risk management guidance. Written by medico-legal expert Dr. Leanne E. Tran and featuring contributions and input from a number of esteemed practitioners and health thought leaders such as Dr. David Naylor and Dr. David Williams, Outbreaks: A Practical Legal and Risk Management Primer for the Healthcare Sector is a must-have resource for anyone who wants to learn more about responding to public health threats in a coordinated and collaborative manner, locally, provincially, nationally, and internationally.
See Dr. Tran’s interview with the United Nations Association in Canada where she discusses the Outbreaks book and epidemic preparedness before, during, and after COVID-19.
Halsbury’s Laws of Canada – Public Health (2023 Reissue) (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2023)
In the age of COVID-19, swine flu, global epidemics, AIDS, cannabis and opioid use and increased privacy concerns, the law related to public health has never been more relevant to more lawyers in more areas of practice. This book examines the law that empowers public health officials and institutions to carry out functions to deliver public health programs and services, prevent the spread of disease, and promote and protect the health of the population.
The Canadian Law of Consent to Treatment, 4th Edition (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2023)
Consent to treatment is one of the most hotly debated medical legal issues in the world. The entire patient-provider relationship rests on it. The Canadian Law of Consent to Treatment anticipates the possibility of a medical dispute and provides solutions to what could otherwise be a legal and risk management nightmare. The 4th Edition is the long-awaited update of Lorne E. Rozovsky’s text, written by health lawyer Dr. Leanne E. Tran.
