Daten- und Geheimnisschutz bei Outsourcing-Projekten im Krankenhausbereich

Data protection and confidentiality duties present major challenges for outsourcings in the German hospital sector as the relevant data protection laws are manifold. The book strives to analyze this complex legal field. The book’s first part deals with some of the specific conditions of data protection in the hospital sector, such as patient data as a special category of data and the relationship between the different legal regimes; after that, it focuses, inter alia, on the specific requirements for commissioned data processing on behalf of another party, outlines the conditions for processing patient related data under national and federal state law and examines the compatibility of the various legal regimes in Germany with the European Data Protection Directive. In the second part on confidentiality, the book addresses the legal requirements in order to conduct an outsourcing without infringement of sec. 203 of the Penal Code.