2 Amendments of Juozas IMBRASAS related to 2013/2061(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Is convinced that health literacy of patients, encouraging them to monitor and measure their health, to understand and control their health data and to eliminate the prevailing unequal specialist-patient relationship, is a crucial factor needed to improve quality of health services, increase transparency of health institutions, fight corruption and to ensure that patients allow re-use of their data for creating new knowledge;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. SCalls on Member States and the Commission to take an urgent action to create a coherent legal framework to manage different types of health data and their use; the rapid success of social networking tools show that individuals willingly share personal information and are not always aware of the implications of their decisions, while the terms and conditions of the new applications and tools collecting data are set by providers, often without adequate safeguards and protection; stresses that citizens' confidence is essential for both domestic and crossborder eHealth services; emphasises the need to comply with the rules on personal data protection, since this is an essential prerequisite for the protection of citizens, for patients' trust in eHealth services, and for the proper functioning and increased use of electronic communications in the health sector; sensitive data, in particular medical data, must be protected from hacking, leaks, privacy breaches and other forms of abuse;