Should we be worried about our health data? The deputies gave in the night of Friday to Saturday their agreement to the extension of the state of health emergency until July 10, and the green light to the device of follow-up of the population, which should allow according to the words of Olivier Véran to "break the chains of contamination" with the famous "health brigades". But this device has still been debated, because the filing, potential breach in medical confidentiality, worries some deputies.
The headwind opposition
In particular, there were hours of debate on article 6 of the bill, which provides for the establishment of an information system, in connection with social security, to identify infected persons. The opposition is wind up against this proposal: "I think this point is an incredible breach in French law", for example decreed the socialist Valérie Rabault. "We do not want a file society, because we do not trust interconnected files", for his part criticized the rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
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It should be understood that this file will be used by the famous "brigades" who will investigate the entourage of the sick.
"We are not creating the law, it exists!"
Many are particularly concerned about the lack of consent of the people who will be on these lists. The government has therefore tried to reassure, through the Minister of Health Olivier Véran: "The law may derogate from medical confidentiality, including in the absence of consent from the person concerned, if treatment is necessary for reasons of "public interest in the field of public health. We are not creating the law, it exists!"
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Invited Saturday on Europe 1, Nicolas Revel, the general director of the Health insurance, abounds: "the medical secrecy, we manage it for 70 years". If, according to him, the fear of filing "is a legitimate subject", he ensures that only "patients, their doctors and Health Insurance" will have knowledge of sensitive data within the framework of the "health brigades" system.
Before the vote, the Parliament nevertheless made some modifications and notably restricted the sharing of this data for 9 months. He will continue to work on this text because, as Olivier Véran says, "we need it to lift the confinement on Monday, and that is why I am a little pressing today in the debate and I apologize. " Final answer by Sunday evening.