PeruLey General de Salud, confidentiality of information on the medical act
In force.
A sensitive categories rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Obligation class
- Access restriction
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Keep information about a medical act confidential if you are a health professional, technician or assistant, and do not give it out or disclose it by any means; disclosing it exposes you to civil or criminal liability, except with the patient's written consent, on a competent judicial authority's request, in anonymized form for academic or scientific research, or in another case the article lists.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 25 makes information on the medical act confidential and sets the exceptions to that reserve; it asks no one to keep a log or record, and gives no authority a power to inspect one.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Article 25 of the Ley General de Salud makes all information about a medical act confidential, and makes a health professional, technician or assistant who gives out or discloses it by any means liable in civil or criminal law, without prejudice to professional ethics sanctions.
The confidentiality does not apply where the patient consents in writing, a competent judicial authority requires the information, or the information is used for academic or scientific research and taken from the clinical record anonymously, among other cases the article lists.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app handles health records or processes personal data.
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