Processes de-identified data, in the Netherlands

Burgerlijk Wetboek Boek 7, Art. 458 · Read the law's page

• If you are a care provider, give information about a patient or access to the patient's file to another person for statistics or scientific research in the field of public health without the patient's consent only where asking consent is reasonably impossible and the research provides safeguards against disproportionate harm to the patient's privacy, or where consent cannot reasonably be demanded and you have seen to it that the data are provided in a form that reasonably prevents tracing them to individual natural persons (Burgerlijk Wetboek Boek 7 Article 458, paragraph 1).
• Provide the data only if the research serves a general interest, cannot be carried out without the data, and the patient has not expressly objected to the provision (Article 458, paragraph 2).
• Note each such provision of information in the patient's file (Article 458, paragraph 3).