A Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislator yesterday proposed amending the Medical Care Act (醫療法) to prevent the release of patients’ medical records to protect their privacy.
KMT Legislator Kuo Su-chun (郭素春) said her proposal to amend Article 67 of the Act would protect the basic human rights of patients by obliging hospitals to classify medical records according to the sensitivity of the information in the documents.
Many people are concerned about the confidentiality of their financial data and medical records and that some medical records should be more tightly guarded than data on trivial illnesses, she said.
Records that need to be kept confidential include an individual’s blood type, allergies or any records related to public health, domestic violence, abuse and abortion, she said.
Kuo said she proposed the amendment after physician Lin Cheng-cheng (林政誠) talked to the media about how Rebecca Sun (孫仲瑜) lost weight at Lin’s clinic.
Sun is the woman who was discovered by the Apple Daily in November to be having an affair with 51-year-old KMT Legislator Wu Yu-sheng (吳育昇).
The Taipei City Department of Health fined Lin NT$100,000 last month for violating Sun’s privacy.
Kuo said her proposal would give patients the right to decide what information can be revealed and the right to request an electronic copy of their personal medical records.
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