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National Health Information System Act, anonymised and pseudonymised health data

Act No. 153/2013 Coll. on the National Health Information System, sections 2(21)-(22) and 3a

In force since .

A de-identification rule binding government bodies.

Instrument type
an act of a legislature
Obligation class
Governance
Audit expectation
none

What it requires

  • Anonymised data, or aggregated or anonymised data, from the surveys of events characterising the health of the population are provided to the statistical office for state statistics (section 3a(6)).
  • The National Health Information Centre provides anonymised data from the data base to anyone on request, under conditions it sets (section 3a(15)).
  • The National Health Information Centre provides the personal data of insured persons to the Ministry of Health in pseudonymised form (section 3a(20)).
  • Pseudonymised data from the national health registers are provided to the Ministry of Health for the purposes of state health policy (section 3a(23)).

These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.

What record it asks for

Logging duty

Sections 2 and 3a of Act No. 153/2013 Coll. set the form (anonymised or pseudonymised) in which health data are provided to recipients. They state no duty to create, keep or produce a log or record.

Kind
None
As of

What this law does

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Research summary

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Act No. 153/2013 Coll. defines anonymised data as data created from personal data so that the data subject cannot be identified from them, and says anonymised data are not personal data. Act No. 153/2013 Coll. defines pseudonymised data as data processed from personal data so that they cannot be attributed to a specific data subject without additional information that is kept separately and covered by technical and organisational measures.

Section 3a(6) of Act No. 153/2013 Coll. provides anonymised data, and aggregated or anonymised data, from the surveys of events characterising the health of the population to the statistical office for state statistics. Section 3a(15) of Act No. 153/2013 Coll. provides anonymised data from the data base, and aggregated data that were anonymised, to anyone on request under conditions set by the National Health Information Centre.

Under section 3a(20) of Act No. 153/2013 Coll. the National Health Information Centre provides the personal data of insured persons to the Ministry of Health in pseudonymised form. Section 3a(23) of Act No. 153/2013 Coll. provides pseudonymised data from the national health registers to the Ministry of Health for the purposes of state health policy. Act No. 153/2013 Coll. entered into force on , with exceptions for some articles.

When LexLint raises it

When your app profile says your app handles health records, processes personal data or processes de-identified data.

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