Health data processing in the context of telemedicine: an overview between Brazil and the European Union post pandemic COVID-19
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2021
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1689-8052
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2451-0807
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Oficyna Wydawnicza AFM
Abstract
The use of telemedicine had notably been developed in Brazil after the beginning of the
public emergency period caused by the pandemic of COVID-19. With the new data protection
law in force in Brazil, which is similar to the GDPR, health data are in the spotlight.
The purpose of this article is to exam what measures Brazil has adopted to guarantee
the data protection for health data in view of this scenario, taking the EU as a perspective for comparison reasons. For the Brazilian analysis, not only the formal legislation was
considered, but also the guidance of the Federal Council of Medicine, which is the competent
authority to supervise and issue orders on the development of medicine in Brazil,
including the telemedicine. The comparison with the EU was chosen due to the similar
data protection regulation, since the LGPD presents similar provisions and regulations to
those established in the GDPR, and because the European Commission has issued a study
on February 11, 2021, assessing the implementation of the GDPR and the domestic regulations
for health data in each of the EU countries. This article has found out Brazilian
regulation still presents flaws and points for clarification, which are fundamental to guarantee
the necessary legal security in operations.
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Studia Prawnicze. Rozprawy i materiały 2021, nr 2, s. 55-64.