TY - JOUR
TI - Protection of personal data in health care units
AU - Pacian, Jolanta
AU - Pacian, Anna
AU - Kulik, Teresa B.
AU - Stefanowicz, Agata
AU - Skórzyńska, Hanna
AU - Żołnierczuk-Kieliszek, Dorota
AU - Janiszewska, Beata
TI - Protection of personal data in health care units
AB - 
	A presentation of the regulations concerning the protection of personal data at health care units is a purpose of the work. Medical data i.e. sensitive data constitute the special category of personal details (sensitive ones) which concern medical condition, information about the genetic code or addictions. A general prohibition on the processing of sensitive data exists, except for the situation, when provisions of the law allow it. In the legal status being in force processing both information referring directly to the medical condition of man, and information the average recipient can acquire these data is forbidden. Processing sensitive personal details without the written consent of the person which they concern, is possible only in the objective of protection of medical condition, providing medical services or curing patients by persons being engaged professionally in curing or with providing other medical services, provided there are created full guarantees of the protection such data.. Medical data gathered by the health-service units must be provided with the full legal protection, predicted in the act from 29.08.1997 about the protection of personal data. For creating appropriate conditions of storing medical documentation a manager of the health care unit is held responsible.
VL - 2012
IS - Volume 10, Issue 3
PY - 2013
SN - 1731-7398
C1 - 2084-2627
SP - 189
EP - 194
DO - 10.4467/20842627OZ.13.020.1168
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zdrowie-publiczne-i-zarzadzanie/article/ochrona-danych-medycznych-zawartych-w-dokumentacji-medycznej-a-wykorzystanie-bezpiecznego-podpisu-elektronicznego
KW - health care units
KW - medical data
KW - protection