In order to analyse their medical activity, public and private health care institutions shall, in accordance with the conditions laid down in this section, summarise and process in computerised form the data contained in the medical file referred to in article L. 1112-1 which is collected, for each patient, by the practitioner in charge of the medical or medico-technical structure or by the practitioner who provided care to the patient and which is transmitted to the doctor in charge of medical information for the institution, referred to in article L. 6113-7.
This data may only concern :
1° The patient’s identity and place of residence ;
2° The type of care provided, such as hospitalisation with or without accommodation, part-time hospitalisation, hospitalisation at home, outpatient consultation;
3° The patient’s family or social environment insofar as it affects the way in which the patient is treated;
4° Methods and dates of admission and discharge;
5° The medical units which treated the patient;
6° The pathologies and other medical characteristics of the person being treated;
7° The diagnostic and care procedures carried out for the patient during their stay in the establishment.
The data mentioned in 1° is not collected when a person can legally be admitted to a health establishment or receive care there anonymously.