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Article L1111-11 of the French Public Health Code

Any person of legal age may draw up advance directives in the event of one day being unable to express his or her wishes. These advance directives express the person’s wishes regarding the end of their life and the conditions for continuing, limiting, stopping or refusing medical treatment or procedures. They can be revised and revoked at any time and by any means. They may be drawn up in accordance…

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Article L1111-12 of the French Public Health Code

When a person, in the advanced or terminal phase of a serious and incurable disease, whatever the cause, is incapable of expressing his wishes, the doctor is obliged to enquire about the expression of the patient’s wishes. In the absence of the advance directives referred to in article L. 1111-11, the doctor will obtain the testimony of the trusted support person or, failing this, any other testimony from the family…

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Article L1111-13-1 of the French Public Health Code

I.-The digital health space is opened automatically, unless the person or their legal representative objects. The person concerned or their legal representative is informed of the opening of the digital health space, the conditions under which this space operates, their responsibilities as a manager of health data in a digital space and the procedures for closing it in application of 3° of IV. The data subject or his/her legal representative…

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Article L1111-13-2 of the French Public Health Code

The State and one or more public authorities or public persons designated by decree shall be responsible for the design, implementation, administration, hosting and governance of the digital health space in accordance with the conditions laid down by decree of the Conseil d’Etat, issued after consultation of the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés. The design and implementation of the digital health space will take into account the difficulties…

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Article L1111-14 of the French Public Health Code

In order to promote the prevention, coordination, quality and continuity of care, each person has access to a shared medical record, under the conditions and subject to the guarantees provided for in articles L. 1110-4 and L. 1470-5 and in compliance with medical confidentiality. The automatic opening of the digital health space, under the conditions laid down in I and V of article L. 1111-13-1, which provide for the possibility…

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Article L1111-15 of the French Public Health Code

In compliance with the ethical rules applicable to them as well as articles L. 1110-4, L. 1470-5 and L. 1111-2, each healthcare professional, regardless of how or where they practice, must enter into the shared medical record, at the time of each procedure or consultation, the diagnostic and therapeutic elements necessary for the coordination of the care of the person being cared for, the list of which is set by…

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Article L1111-16 of the French Public Health Code

The coordinating doctor referred to in V of article L. 313-12 of the Social Action and Family Code has access to the shared medical record of the person accommodated in the institution subject to the agreement of the latter or, if the person accommodated is an adult subject to a legal protection measure with representation relating to the person and is not capable of expressing his or her wishes, of…

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Article L1111-17 of the French Public Health Code

I.-Health professionals will access the shared medical record of a person who is unable to express their wishes, in the event of a situation involving an immediate risk to their health, unless this person has previously expressed their express opposition to their record being consulted or added to in such a situation. The regulating doctor at the emergency medical assistance call reception and regulation centre mentioned in article L. 6311-2…

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Article L1111-18 of the French Public Health Code

Access to the shared medical record may not be requested except in the cases provided for in articles L. 1111-15 and L. 1111-16, even with the consent of the person concerned. In particular, access to the shared medical record is prohibited when concluding a contract relating to supplementary health cover and when concluding any other contract requiring an assessment of the state of health of one of the parties. Without…

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