Draft of a Federal Act dated on the Electronic Patient File (total revision)

Section 6b Research and quality assurance
Article 19f Request
1 The federal authorities may disclose, to third parties who request them, the data from the database of structured patient health data for research and quality assurance purposes.
2 The Federal Council shall define the methods of submission of such requests.
3 It may issue directives for the processing of disclosed data, to ensure protection of the privacy of the persons concerned.
4 The federal authorities may charge fees to third parties whose research results or results obtained in a quality assurance context are not publicly accessible.

Article 19g Data communication
1 Data communicated by the federal authorities must be anonymised.
2 Data need not be anonymised when forwarded for research purposes in accordance with the Federal Act of 30 September 2011 on Research Involving Human Beings if the applicant submits the authorisation or content required by the human research legislation.
3 Data transmission for non-research purposes and for quality assurance is governed by the Federal Act of 25 September 2020 on Data Protection.
4 The Federal Council shall satisfy itself that the anonymisation requirements correspond to the state of the art.