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The protection of medical data - Recommendation No. R (97) 5 and explanatory memorandum (1998)
This recommendation provides that the protection of privacy should apply, by means of the approriate safeguards, to all medical data, whether processed by a doctor or by another person. It protects any information which might give an idea of a person's medical situation, such as for insurance purposes, for example data on his our her behaviour, sex life, life style, drug consumption or alcohol or tobacco abuse.
This recommendation provides that the protection of privacy should apply, by means of the approriate safeguards, to all medical data, whether processed by a doctor or by another person. It protects any information which might give an idea of a person's medical situation, such as for insurance purposes, for example data on his our her behaviour, sex life, life style, drug consumption or alcohol or tobacco abuse.