Health

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) recognises data concerning health as a special category of data and provides a definition for health data for data protection purposes. Though the innovative principles introduced by the GDPR (privacy by design or the prohibition of discriminatory profiling) remain relevant and applicable to health data as well, specific safeguards for personal health data and for a definitive interpretation of the rules that allows an effective and comprehensive protection of such data have now been addressed by the GDPR. Processes that foster innovation and better quality healthcare, such as clinical trials or mobile health, need robust data protection safeguards in order to maintain the trust and confidence of individuals in the rules designed to protect their data.

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Oct

2015

International Conferences

Amsterdam

Amsterdam Declaration on Genetic and Health Data and Data Protection Oversight of Security and Intelligence

Available languages: English

Resolution on Privacy and International Humanitarian Action

Available languages: English

Resolution on Transparency Reporting

Available languages: English

Resolution on Cooperation with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy

Available languages: English

Resolution on Conference's Strategic Direction (2016-18)

Available languages: English

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International Cooperation

Health

Transparency

Security

Aug

2015

Newsletters

Newsletter Nr. 45

The August 2015 edition of the EDPS Newsletter covers EDPS recommendations on the reform of EU data protection legislation, the publication of the 2014 EDPS Annual Report, the EDPS Opinion on Mobile Health and many other EDPS activities.

Available languages: English

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Data Protection Officer

General Data Protection Regulation

Accountability

International Agreements

Safe Harbour

Case-law and litigation

Borders, Asylum, Migration

Privacy in the EU Institutions

Technologies

Mobile Devices & Apps

Jul

2015

Opinions Prior Check and Prior Consultations

Risk Analysis - Frontex

Opinion on a notification for prior checking received from the Data Protection Officer of Frontex concerning the Processing of Personal Data for Risk Analysis (PeDRA) (Case 2015-0346)

Available languages: German, English, French

Update of the notification for prior checking opinion received from the Data Protection Office of Frontex

Available languages: German, English, French

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Necessity & Proportionality

Transfers of data

Borders, Asylum, Migration

Health

Police Cooperation

Jun

2015

Formal Comments

EU Medicines Agencies Network Strategy to 2020

EDPS Comments on EU Medicines Agencies Network Strategy to 2020 - Working together to improve health

Available languages: German, English, French

EDPS letter regarding comments on EU Medicines Agencies Network Strategy to 2020

Available languages: English

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Digital Clearinghouse 2.0

Health

mHealth

Research & Science

May

2015

Opinions

Mobile health

Opinion on Mobile Health - Reconciling technological innovation with data protection

Available languages: German, English, French

Executive summary

Available languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Estonian, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Croatian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Maltese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Finnish, Swedish

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