Implementation of Personal Data Protection in Medicine

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issues of legal protection of personal data in medicine and health care; approaches to the protection of personal data contained in medical records in the Russian Federation and in the European Union; specifics of the relationship between legal protection of personal data and medical secrecy; relevant cases of providing medical records containing personal data on deceased persons; problems of improving the legislation on the basis of health protection of citizens in the Russian Federation in accordance with the legislation on personal data.
When deciding whether relatives, in the event of the death of a citizen, can get access to information about the state of health of the deceased contained in medical documents, it is necessary to take into account the balance of interests of patients, relatives, spouses and other persons in obtaining access to the patient’s medical information in case of his death.