ColombiaResolución 1995 de 1999 (Ministerio de Salud), Rules for Handling the Clinical History
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Access restriction, Security, Data subject rights
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Treat the clinical history as a private document subject to confidentiality, and let a third party know it only with the patient's prior authorization or in the cases the law provides.
- Give access to the information in the clinical history only to the user, the health team, judicial and health authorities in the cases the law provides, and the other persons the law determines, and only for purposes the law makes proper.
- Protect the confidentiality of the clinical history with mechanisms that block access by unauthorized staff, and take measures against accidental or deliberate destruction of the records.
- Give automated clinical-history programs, equipment and document supports security mechanisms that make it impossible to alter the clinical history once the data is recorded and saved.
- Make it possible to identify the staff member responsible for each entry, by codes, indicators or other means in place of a signature and stamp, with the exact time and date of the entry.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What record it asks for
Logging duty
Article 18 requires systems that identify the staff member, time and date of each entry in the clinical history, but names no body that may demand the log and sets no keeping period, so the row records no logging duty. The articles cited here carry no territorial scope clause, so no territorial hook is recorded.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
The clinical history is a private, mandatory document subject to confidentiality, in which the patient's health conditions, medical acts and procedures are recorded. The clinical history may be known by third parties only with the patient's prior authorization or in the cases the law provides. The Resolution is mandatory for all health service providers and for the other natural or legal persons who relate to health care.
Only the user, the health team, judicial and health authorities in the cases the law provides, and other persons the law determines may access the clinical history. The confidentiality of the clinical history must be protected by mechanisms that block access by unauthorized staff and measures that prevent accidental or deliberate destruction of the records.
Health service providers must make it possible to identify the staff member responsible for the data entered, with the exact time and date of each entry. The Resolution takes effect on the date of its publication. The Resolution was published in the Diario Oficial on .
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