News and views introduction of a national electronic patient record in the Netherlands: Some legal issues

European Journal of Health Law

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 191-204

  Ploem, Corrette ^a   Gevers, Sjef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

confidentiality privacy; Dutch n EPR; electronic patient record (EPR); medical record; patient data

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; NETHERLANDS;

COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 79953808249     PISSN: 09290273     EISSN: 15718093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157180911X564561     Document Type: Article

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3. For the EU, the long term objective is even to share personal health information across national frontiers; see E. Rynning, 'Public trust and privacy in shared electronic health records, EJHL (2007), 105-112. In this article however, we will limit ourselves to the national level.
4. Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, Working Document on the processing of personal data relating to health in electronic health records, 00323/07/EN, WP 131, Brussels, 15 February 2007.
5. Laid down in Article 21.1 Dutch Data Protection Act.
6. The corresponding provision in the Data Protection Act is Article 23.1.
7. Also laid down in Article 23.1 Data Protection Act.
8. See also M.C. Ploem, 'Naar een landelijk EPD: kanttekeningen bij wetsvoorstel 31466 '(Towards a national Electronic Patient Record: Comments on Bill 31466), Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidsrecht (2010) 263-284.
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10. According to the parliamentary proceedings, updating should take place 'within 24 hours.
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12. See for instance B.P. Dekker, A. Hendriks, 'De juridische gevolgen van het EPD voor u en uw dokter (Legal consequences of the n-EPR for you and your doctor), Nederlands Juristenblad (2009) 2759-2763.
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17. Ibid..
18. M. Zwaanswijk et al., supra note 9.