חוק לתיקון פקודת בריאות העם (מס' 43), התשפ"ד–2024Law to Amend the Public Health Ordinance (No. 43), 2024 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

This Amendment to the Public Health Ordinance provides that the Minister of Health will establish a computerized national vaccination database, which will include information regarding vaccinations given by vaccinating entities, including the Ministry of Health, health funds, hospitals and clinics, and organizations providing emergency medical services. The Minister of Health is authorized under this Law to designate additional vaccinating entities, subject to the approval of the Knesset Health Committee. Use of the vaccination database will be limited solely to the purposes set out in the Law, including providing medical treatment, presenting a person with information about vaccinations they received, proactive outreach by the Ministry of Health to a person for vaccination or preventive treatment against an infectious disease in order to prevent the spread of the disease, and monitoring the rate of vaccination coverage in the population. It is also provided that vaccinating entities must report to the Ministry of Health, regarding a person to whom they administered a vaccine, the details specified in the Law as soon as possible after the vaccination was given and no later than 72 hours from the time of vaccination. The Minister of Health, with the agreement of the Minister of Justice and with the approval of the Knesset Health Committee, may determine additional details that vaccinating entities must report. The transfer of information will be carried out as detailed in the Law via a dedicated and secure interface; however, the Director-General of the Ministry of Health will be authorized to order, for special reasons to be recorded, reporting by another secure method or an exemption from the reporting obligation for a particular vaccinating entity. The Ministry of Health will enable a vaccinated person to view digitally the vaccinations they received via the vaccinating entities, and health funds will present this data in the insured person's personal area on the fund's website, based on information transferred to the health fund by the Ministry of Health. The Ministry of Health will be required to transfer information from the database to a recipient of information with the patient's consent, in accordance with the Medical Information Portability Law, 2024. Regarding the security of the information in the database, the Director-General of the Ministry of Health will establish in a procedure the provisions required for securing the information contained in and transmitted from the database. The technological system used for the database will, as far as possible, minimize the risk of privacy harm to those about whom information is held in the database, while examining accepted technological alternatives from time to time. Failure of a vaccinating entity to report to the Ministry of Health regarding a person who received a vaccination from it, in violation of the provisions of the Law, will constitute a criminal offense. This Law will come into effect six months from the date of its publication, and the reporting obligation imposed on vaccinating entities, as well as the criminal offense involved in its violation, will apply to a vaccination given on or after the effective date. Vaccinating entities must also transfer the details in their possession regarding vaccinations given before the effective date, but failure to comply with this provision will not constitute a criminal offense.

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