Regulation On Processing And Protecting The Privacy Of Personal Health Data

The Regulation on Processing and Protecting the Privacy of Personal Health Data ("Health Data Regulation") has recently been published on the Official Gazette, on October 20, 2016 and came into force on the same date.

This regulation is not only applicable to the health institutions and the data subjects whose personal data is processed, but also covers real persons and legal entities who process health data within the scope of a legislation. Therefore, all companies processing health data for reasons such as employment procedures, periodic inspection or due to obligations arising from social security legislation will be subject to the provisions of the Health Data Regulation.

The purpose of the Health Data Regulation is to set out the procedures and principles to protect personal health data and to ensure its privacy, to regulate the provisions regarding the system which will be established to collect, process, transfer the personal health data and to access to