The Dutch Data Protection authority sees no ‘special risks’ with respect to resolving privacy infractions once at the private launch of the electronic patient record, such as that currently being proposed.
The government programme for an electronic patient record with national switching last year by the First Chamber was fired, but in december it became known that there was a private go-around went. The continue was an initiative of the Dutch Patients and Consumers Federation, in cooperation with general practitioners, hospitals, pharmacists. The doorstartmodel described that the patient data from 1 January 2012 under the responsibility of the specially founded Association of healthcare Providers for Zorgcommunicatie would fall.
The association may, however, not just with the processing of medical data, also all patients should explicitly specify whether their data included. There was a review of the Law on protection of personal data is necessary for the continuation of the plan. The CBP does not see any particular risks with respect to the doorstartmodel, so made the organization Thursday known.
The CBP has, among other things, the establishment of the patient approvals and the responsibility for the data processing under the microscope. Also has the privacyorganisatie the standardization of the information reviewed and checked who has access to the files. The CBP still implies a blow to the arm and points out that the opinion only about the proposals, and not about the practice. The organization claims that the exchange of medical data is an important area of focus remains.