The region's current agreement with US-owned Cerner means that patient data will be stored on the company's data servers in Stockholm.

- We should consider that Region Skåne builds its own server halls.

Scanian patients' information should not risk falling into the wrong hands.

It must absolutely not happen and we must have a system that ensures it, says Henrik Fritzon (S), group leader for the Social Democrats in Region Skåne, in a press release on Friday.

Since the procurement in 2017, the legal situation has changed and this has made the Scanian approach more problematic, according to the Social Democrats.

New laws

Cerner, which is a US corporation group, is affected by US national legislation, including the Cloud Act, which means that a US company may need to disclose personal data to US authorities.

Previously, the EU considered that the so-called Privacy Shield agreement between the US and the EU provided adequate protection for personal data.

But this summer, the European Court of Justice rejected the agreement and as a result, the United States is no longer considered to have a sufficiently high level of protection for the transfer of personal data.

S requires investigation

The Social Democrats therefore want the regional board to instruct the regional director to initiate an independent review of the transfer of Scanian patient data to Cerner to find out whether it violates Swedish or European law.

If the review should show that the transfer of patient data to Cerner violates the law, the Social Democrats propose that the region investigate the possibility of running the server halls under its own auspices.

SVT is looking for Annette Linander (C), regional councilor with special responsibility for digitization in Region Skåne, for a comment.