Legal issues of protection and portability of patient data in medical information and analytical systems
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https://doi.org/10.17308/law/1995-5502/2026/1/66-77Keywords:
medical information and analytical systems, unified state health information system, protection of medical data, portability of medical dataAbstract
The article is devoted to the study of problems in the field of ensuring the protection and portability of patient data in medical information and analytical systems (hereinafter - MIAS). The purpose of the study is a comprehensive analysis of the legal regulation of the MIAS of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The research used general scientific methods: analysis and synthesis, deduction and induction, forecasting, modeling, as well as special methods: technical-legal and comparative-legal. The study identified the following disadvantages of protecting patients' medical data were identified: the lack of uniform requirements for the protection of medical information in the MIAS of different subjects of the Russian Federation, the problem of the portability of medical information from the MIAS of one subject of the Russian Federation to another, financial and technical problems of creating the federal unified state health information system of the Russian Federation (hereinafter - the EGISZ of the Russian Federation). The main practical limitation is the lack of accessible information on the level of digitalization in healthcare and on registered leaks of patient data in remote regions of Russia. The methodological limitation is the discrepancy between the approaches of the legislator and legal scholars regarding the level of government access to patient data and the methods of storing medical information in healthcare institutions. The need for all subjects of the Russian Federation to switch to the Unified State Register of Medical Sciences of the Russian Federation, which will contribute to solving the problem of the portability of medical information when a patient moves from one subject of the Russian Federation to another subject by automatically uploading his medical data with the consent of the patient. The author also proposes to create uniform standards for the interaction of MIAS of all subjects of the Russian Federation, to strengthen information security measures by strengthening responsibility in the legislation on personal data for violation of the rules for the protection of medical data of patients.
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