Prawo pacjenta do ochrony danych osobowych
A Patient’s Right to Protection of Personal Data

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents legal solutions serving the purpose of the protection of a patient’s personaldata. The study demonstrates that the health service obtains and collects information on individ-uals which is indispensable for its appropriate functioning. The doctor-patient confidentialityprinciple helps in maintaining the confidentiality of these data and is sometimes described as theoldest form of personal data protection. However, the patient has at his disposal certain legal in-struments provided by the principles of general personal data protection which ensure the right tomonitor the flow of relevant information. This monitoring is to a considerable extent active innature, as the patient can intervene when the content of the information is untrue or incomplete,or collected in a manner violating the law. These conclusions are supported by the analysis ofregulations on the processing of patients’personal data, medical documentation as a collection ofpersonal data, the responsibilities of data administrator as regards information management andother tasks, patients’ rights to obtain the information related to personal data processing and theirintervention in the content of such information.

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