Doctors responsible for collecting nominative medical data or for processing files containing such data are subject to the obligation of secrecy, breach of which is punishable in accordance with articles 226-13 and 226-14 of the French Criminal Code.
The following are also subject to the obligation of secrecy, breach of which is punishable in accordance with articles 226-13 and 226-14 of the French Penal Code:
1° Persons in the health establishment or the support establishment for the regional hospital grouping who contribute to the processing of the personal data mentioned in article R. 6113-1 under the authority of the doctor responsible for medical information;
2° Persons working on the hardware and software used to process the personal data referred to in Article R. 6113-1;
3° Statutory auditors who receive, through the intermediary of a doctor acting under their responsibility as an expert, personal data mentioned in article R. 6113-1, as part of their statutory task of certifying the accounts of health establishments mentioned in article L. 6145-16 and under the conditions set out in article R. 6113-5-1 ;
4° External service providers who contribute, under the responsibility and control of the doctor responsible for the health institution’s medical information, to the processing of the personal data mentioned in article R. 6113-1 as part of their sub-contracting contract and have access to this data for this purpose, under the conditions provided for in article R. 6113-5-2.
The statutory auditors and external service providers mentioned in the previous two paragraphs may only access the necessary personal data mentioned in article R. 6113-1 within the strict limits of what is necessary for their missions.