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Risk and compliance requirements in Europe and Americas

Risk and compliance requirements in Europe and Americas

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Risk and compliance requirements in Europe and Americas

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- [Instructor] In the health sector in Sweden personal data is governed by the Patient Data Act. In the Belgium public sector the law of 21 August 2008 established the e-health platform. One of the task assigned to e-health platform is to check whether the software packages for managing electronic patient files comply with the established ICT related functional and technical standards, specifications and to identify these software packages. Cloud service providers must also comply with certain requirements, such as security and privacy standards. German law governs the offering and use of cloud solutions in the health sector using very specific data protection provisions. For instance health insurance needs to comply with special privacy provisions included in the social legislation. And in the United States HIPPA and HITECH laws are relevant to the healthcare sector.

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