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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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7
Sep
2009
Opinions Prior Check and Prior Consultations

EudraVigilance database - EMEA

Opinion of 7 September 2009 on a notification for prior checking regarding the EudraVigilance database (Case 2008-402)

EMEA manages the EudraVigilance database whose originates from National Competent Authorities, Market Authorization Holders and sponsors of clinical trials.  The purpose of the database is to evaluate suspected adverse reactions to medicinal products for human use. The EDPS considers that the processing is lawful to the extent that EMEA follows the recommendations included in the Opinion, particularly those regarding the data quality principle.

The EDPS recommended, among others, that EMEA:

  • Engages in an examination of the possibility to minimize the personal data recorded in ICRs as well as of the possibility to anonymise or pseudoanonymise personal information contained in ICRs;
  • Considers whether a  limited conservation period would fulfill the purposes sought by the data processing;
  • Adopts the security measures described in this Opinion.
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Topics
Large-Scale IT Systems
Health
22
Apr
2009
Opinions

Pharmacovigilance

Opinion on the proposals for a Regulation and for a Directive on pharmacovigilance, OJ C 229, 23.09.2009, p. 19

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Topics
Rights of the Individual
Right of Information
Right of Access
Health
5
Mar
2009
Opinions

Organ transplantation

Opinion of 5 March 2009 on the proposal for a directive on standards of quality and safety of human organs intended for transplantation, OJ C192, 15.08.2009, p. 6

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COM(2008) 218 of 8.12.2008
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Information Security
Health