TABLE 2.

Accessing administrative claims data

Province	Data custodian	Process to approval of data request	Data released to researchers
BC	Population Data BC (PopData)	UBC (Wong) ethics approval is followed by UNBC (Lavoie) approval DAR is submitted to the PopData RLU for their detailed review Once all requirements have been met, the DAR is submitted to the appropriate data steward (e.g., Ministry of Health) for approval	Data available for use by researchers, most often in PopData secure research environment
MB	Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP)	University of Manitoba ethics approval is obtained FNHGC approval is obtained Review is conducted by the HIPC, in accordance with MB's Personal Health Information Privacy Act Once approvals secured, the project is queued and an analyst is assigned to work with the research team in the execution of the design of the analysis strategy	Data analyzed by a MCHP analyst or analyst employed by researcher through remote access sites

UBC = University of British Columbia; UNBC = University of Northern British Columbia; DAR = Data Access Request; RLU = Researcher Liaison Unit; FNHGC = First Nations Health Information Governance Committee; HIPC = Health Information Privacy Committee.