חוק ניוד מידע רפואי, התשפ"ד-2024Law on Transfer of Medical Information, 2024 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

The purpose of the Law is to regulate every person's right to portability of medical information about them, in order to improve their medical treatment and health condition, all while maintaining their privacy and with their consent. It is determined that healthcare service providers listed in the Law will be required to transfer medical information between them, if the patient's consent to transfer information about them was given, and only for the purposes set out in the Law, which are: medical treatment of the patient, transfer of information from a health fund in which a person was insured to the health fund to which they transferred, and a service of presenting all medical information to the insured by the health fund in which they are insured. Healthcare service providers that will be required to transfer information as stated include, among others, a health fund, a public hospital, a geriatric medical center, and the Ministry of Health with regard to health services it provides under the Third Schedule to the National Health Insurance Law (such as well-baby clinics). The information will be transferred via an interface intended for the secure transfer of information between bodies and will be requested according to the information baskets required to achieve the purpose and to the smallest extent required from among the information baskets listed in the Schedule to the Law. The Director General of the Ministry of Health is authorized to establish instructions regarding the manner of transferring information via the interface, including information coding and data structuring. The Director General is also authorized to establish instructions regarding protection of the medical information transferred via the interface under the arrangement. Additional provisions were established regarding a permit for receiving medical information under the Law, consent to the transfer of medical information, exceptions to the transfer of information, a system for managing access permissions, the possibility of including additional hospitals in the arrangement, preservation of laws, penalties, reporting by healthcare service providers to the Director General of the Ministry of Health and by the Director General to the Knesset Health Committee, and initial regulations. The Law comes into effect on 24 July 2027, but a later commencement date was set for certain information baskets. In addition, under the Law, the Minister of Health, with the approval of the Knesset Health Committee, may, by order, postpone the commencement of the Law for two additional periods not exceeding two years each, as detailed in the Law.

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