Privacy and security of medical data

Topics:
  • Medical data is one of the most sensitive information about a person, in particular regarding their whole life, but also invaluable source of knowledge on public health, including effectiveness and safety of various treatments.
  • The solutions included in GDPR provide new opportunities for protecting and managing medical information, introduce new patients’ rights regarding privacy and confidentiality of electronic medical information, certification system and social control and audit within privacy and safety of medical data.
  • The debate shall refer to defining the best use for GDPR to protect the patients’ data and to manage healthcare effectively.
  • The discussion should cover the following issues:
    • need to define privacy policies in healthcare,
    • range of indispensable amendments in Polish law,
    • defining code of the industry,
    • education for patents and medical specialists within medical data protection,
    • mechanisms for public dialogue indispensable to develop detailed solutions on medical data protection.