It is intended to contain the clinical information of a person or patient, clearly and easily understood, from birth to death.
The Chamber of Deputies approved today by the majority and turned into law a policy that seeks to establish an obligation for patients to have free access to their medical procedures throughout the country.
The initiative, which was approved two years ago in the Senate, added the support of 227 delegates, while two were opposed and 28 were registered as absent.
In the socialist debate, Mónica Fein, president of the Health Commission, pointed out: “This is the final objective of all the provinces, and all the subsystems support safe and reliable access to our clinical history, but above all we can dispose of each one of us.”
For his part, official Daniel Gollán said: “In Argentina, 150 million consultations are carried out per year, only for the public sector, which unfortunately does not relate to the private sector and is not linked to statistics.”
The project received a favorable opinion from the Social Action and Public Health Commission in October last year with the agreement of the governing and opposition parties, but it could not be handled because United for Change did not provide a plan to provide the session. December 21, and if the law was not passed tomorrow, he would lose his parliamentary status.
The proposal creates a unique Federal Program for the Computerization and Digitization of Medical Records, whereby all patient information will be documented in a single system.
Throughout the project it is agreed that the Single Electronic Record Registration System carries out all medical-sanitary interventions from medical-health practices and aids that are provided in the national territory, or in the public constitutions of the national health system, provincial or municipal jurisdiction of Buenos Aires and not in private constitutions and social security
It is also agreed that it should contain the clinical information of a person or patient, clearly and easily, from birth to death.
“The information provided cannot be changed without the relevant modifications being registered, even in the event that the error was intended to be corrected in accordance with the provisions of Law 25, 326 on the Protection of Personal Information and its amendments,” says the document. .
Another point of this project is that the Single Electronic Record Registration System guarantees patients and health professionals access to the database of clinical information related to the health care of each patient from anywhere in the national territory, allowing him to consult his information will. who is permitted to be restricted.
The council decided that the national government should work on this system, where the implementation of this program should be established in conjunction with the provinces and the region of Buenos Aires.
The application authority must also determine the technical characteristics and operations of the computerization and digitalization of medical records of the health system of the Republic of Argentina.
And you will have to develop a protocol to study clinical records, as well as plan and implement a clinical history program between the legal authorities to coordinate the implementation and program for free in all public, national, provincial and municipal hospitals.
In addition, they provide technical and financial support to the provincial jurisdictions and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires to meet the objectives of this law.
