Your rights over your health data
Your health data belongs to you. Here, in plain terms, is what the law guarantees — and how to exercise your rights.
A blood-pressure reading at the pharmacy, a report at the hospital, a prescription at your doctor's, a tracking app on your phone: your health data exists in many places. The law gives you rights over each of them, wherever they are.
Five rights the law gives you
- 01 Access Get a copy of your data — e.g. a consultation report.
- 02 Rectify Have false information corrected — e.g. a wrong date of birth.
- 03 Erase Request deletion, within the limits set by law.
- 04 Retrieve and transfer Get your data in a reusable format — e.g. changing provider.
- 05 Object Refuse a use other than your care — e.g. commercial re-use.
Who to contact
Being protected isn't only that your data is well kept. It's knowing where it is, and being able to decide.
What Vertical Health Data does — and doesn't do
Vertical Health Data works to better organise care pathways, one condition at a time. But VHD does not collect, host or process any of your individual health data, and gives no medical advice. This page informs you of your rights; it asks nothing of you.
Vertical Health Data does not collect, host or process any individual health data. The collection of personal health data would be conditional on HDS-certified hosting, which is not in place; it therefore does not take place.