Computerized Nominative Data Protection in France

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[...] The recommendations made to ensure the respect of ethics in the computerization of confidential and personal data, also known as nominative data, is to be restrictive and selective. This is first and foremost about giving the data subject the right to decide on the dissemination of their personal data. The designer, on the other hand, must establish the collection of data solely and exclusively for the purpose of improving the patient's experience and the quality of care provided. It is also recommended that sensitive or specific data be collected only in exceptional and particularly protected situations and stored accordingly. [...]

[...] On considers as limits to this data digitization, the confidentiality of the data and the protection of individual freedoms. One of the limitations linked to standardized data entry is the creation of automation, a logic associated with specified criteria that does not allow for appropriate medical or social action. The second limit mentioned here, to digitization, is that of the potential non-respect of privacy. In a situation where someone provides personal information without knowing and being informed that it will be used and for what purpose. [...]

[...] The public administrative and non-nominative documents highlighted in the law 78-753 of July must be accessible to people who request them, at the same level as medical and social files that are nominative and must be consulted upon request, provided that private life is protected. Like for medical or social files, administrations can refuse access or consultation to an administrative document in the case where it would infringe on the respect of private life as stipulated in article 6. 3. What are the rules to follow in the computer processing of nominative data? [...]

[...] Professional Ethics - Data Personalization Exercise 1. Present three activities inherent to the management of these files. There are different activities inherent to the management of a medical file. The first is obviously that of the doctor or more often the medical secretary (reception), to whom this activity is delegated by the doctor, to create and manage files. It must collect the so-called information administrative information such as the patient's civil status (age, gender, family situation . ) as well as their social coverage (insurance, mutual, any aids). [...]

[...] The training not only of a technical but also of an ethical nature of professionals in contact with these information. Finally, the most important recommendation being to ensure that the ultimate purpose of this data collection is not attributed to its digitization. In fact, the main purpose being to place the patient at the center of the reflection and not to lose the human and objective aspect of an exchange and a real collection such as experienced during a meeting. [...]