Chapter I: National health data system

The processing of personal data known as the National Health Data System (SNDS), instituted in Article L. 1461-1, is implemented by the Health Data Platform, mentioned in Article L. 1462-1, and the National Health Insurance Fund under the conditions set out in this chapter. Its purpose, in application of the provisions of Article L. 1461-1, is to enable the data it gathers to be made available under the conditions defined…

I.-The national health data system comprises a main database covering the entire population and a set of databases not covering the entire population, known as the “catalogue”. The main database brings together the data mentioned in 1° to 4° of the I of article L. 1461-1, progressively supplemented by the data mentioned in 5° to 11° of the I of this same article. The catalogue databases include data mentioned in…

I.-The Plateforme des données de santé and the Caisse nationale de l’assurance maladie are jointly responsible for the national health data system. II.The Caisse nationale de l’assurance maladie is responsible for: 1° Gathering the data mentioned in 1° to 4° of the I of Article L. 1461-1 to create the main database; 2° Storing and making available the data in the main database; 3° Pseudonymisation operations as part of: a)…

I.-The categories of data collected within the national health data system are as follows: 1° Information relating to recipients of care and medico-social benefits: a) The pseudonym, consisting of a non-representative code obtained by an irreversible cryptographic process from the registration number in the National Register for the Identification of Natural Persons ; b) Sex, month and year of birth, rank of birth, municipality of residence and its code as…

I.-Within the limits of their respective responsibilities and their need to know, only the following have access to the data mentioned in Article R. 1461-4: 1° Staff or service providers of the Plateforme des données de santé acting as data controller, authorised and appointed by its director in accordance with their responsibilities; 2° Staff or service providers of the Caisse nationale de l’assurance maladie acting as data controller, authorised and…

Each of the State services, public establishments or bodies entrusted with a public service mission mentioned in Article R. 1461-12 shall keep an up-to-date list of the persons competent within it to issue authorisation to access data in the national health data system, the list of persons authorised to access this data, their respective access profiles and the procedures for granting, managing and checking authorisations, in accordance with a model…

I.-To ensure compliance with the provisions of Article L. 1461-4, the data present in the national health data system and those made available by the joint managers are linked to each person concerned by a pseudonym. This pseudonym is produced in accordance with the procedures set out in II of this article. II – The rules for the secure management of the national health data system, defined in a security…

Health professionals’ identification numbers are stored and managed by the Plateforme des données de santé and the Caisse nationale de l’assurance maladie, within the national health data system in tables separate from those containing the other data in the national health data system, in accordance with the provisions of Article L. 1461-4.

I.-In accordance with 2° of Article L. 1462-1, makes the following information available on its website: 1° The identity and contact details of the data controllers of the national health data system as well as information relating to the databases that feed it; 2° The procedures for exercising the rights provided for in II and III of this article; 3° The list and characteristics of projects involving data from the…

The Minister for Health sets the general guidelines for the development of the national health data system. To this end, he will convene a strategic committee involving the Plateforme des données de santé and the Caisse nationale de l’assurance maladie. An order by the Minister for Health sets the composition, missions and operating procedures of this committee.