The Cnil in favor of a law to regulate the collection of health data by mutuals

The Cnil considers in particular that the legislation regarding the direct sending of health data by doctors to mutuals should be “clarified” and “completed”. These direct shipments require a repeal of medical secrecy, which must be better “framed” and complemented with “guarantees” in front of patients, believes the Cnil.

He believes that the law should also clarify the conditions under which supplementary insurance organizations can make exceptions to the prohibition on collecting and using health data provided by the European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

“Hundreds of complaints”

The organization said it had received “hundreds of complaints on this issue involving some fifty supplementary health insurance organizations.”