AlgeriaLoi n° 18-11 relative à la santé, secret médical et dossier médical
In force.
A sensitive categories rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Access restriction, Governance
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Keep secret the medical information about a person that comes to your knowledge as a health professional, except where the law expressly provides otherwise or the competent court lifts the secrecy.
- If you run a public or private health structure or establishment, keep a computerised single medical file for each patient and protect the confidentiality of the information you hold.
- Expect the penalties of article 301 of the penal code if you breach the obligation of medical and professional secrecy.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 292 requires health structures to establish and update a computerised single medical file for each patient and to protect the confidentiality of the information they hold, but it names no log of access or processing, and the other cited articles state secrecy duties only. The cited provisions have no territorial or other scope clause, so no jurisdiction hook is recorded.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Article 24 gives every person a right to respect for their private life and to the secrecy of the medical information about them, except in cases the law expressly provides, and extends medical secrecy to all information that comes to the knowledge of health professionals. A court may lift the secrecy. Article 169 binds the health professional to medical and/or professional secrecy.
Article 292 requires public and private health structures and establishments to keep a computerised single medical file for each patient and to protect the confidentiality of the information they hold. Article 417 exposes anyone who breaches the secrecy obligation to the penalties of article 301 of the penal code.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app handles health records or processes personal data.
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