The Chamber of Deputies will try this Tuesday, in a special session, to convert into law the project that seeks to establish the obligation for patients to have free access to your medical history through a digitized system throughout the country.
The initiative sanctioned two years ago in the Senate will be dealt with this Tuesday in a session promoted by the Frente de Todos, during which It will also seek to sanction the pension moratorium project that seeks to benefit eight hundred thousand people.
The project obtained a favorable opinion from the Social Action and Public Health commission in October last year with the consensus of the ruling party and the opposition, but it could not be dealt with because Together for Change did not provide a quorum to enable the session on 21 December, and if this Tuesday it does not become law, it will lose parliamentary status.
The proposal creates the Single Federal Program for Computerization and Digitization of Medical Records, through which all patient information will be documented in a single system.
Throughout the opinion that will be debated this Tuesday, it is established that in the Single Electronic Medical Record Registration System Records are made of all medical-sanitary interventions by health professionals and assistants, which are provided in the national territory, either in public establishments of the health system of national, provincial or municipal jurisdiction, and of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, as in private and social security establishments.
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It is also established that it must contain the clinical data of the person or patient, clearly and easily understood, from birth to death.
“The information provided cannot be altered, without the pertinent modification being registered, even in the event that it was intended to correct an error in accordance with the provisions of Law 25,326 on the Protection of Personal Data and its amendments,” says the project. .
Another point of this proposal establishes that the Single System for the Registration of Electronic Medical Records guarantees patients and health professionals access to a database of clinical information relevant to the health care of each patient from anywhere in the national territoryassuring him that the consultation of his data will be restricted to whoever is authorized.
The project establishes that the National Government must put this system into operation where this program must be organized in conjunction with the provinces and the district of Buenos Aires.
The application authority must also determine the technical and operational characteristics of the computerization and digitalization of the medical records of the health system of the Argentine Republic.
And it will have to develop a protocol for uploading clinical records, as well as design and implement clinical history software coordinating interjurisdictional implementation and install the software free of charge in all public, national, provincial and municipal hospitals.
In addition, provide technical and financial assistance to the provincial jurisdictions and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, to meet the objectives of this law.
