Data Asset Details

Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB)

PHIPA Role
Prescribed Entity (PE)
Statement of Purpose
The purpose of this dataset is to securely store drug claims data for each prescribed drug dispensed under the Ontario Drug Plan formulary and patient and treatment information about systemic therapy drug utilization at Ontario hospitals.
Need for Personal Health Information (PHI)
PHI is required to perform analysis on the volumes of oral chemotherapy drug units that are dispensed.
Why De-identified and/or Aggregate Information will not Serve the Identified Purpose
PHI-level data is required for data linkage.
Data Types
Data Provider

Last Updated: April 07, 2026