ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the right to privacy and data protection in the context of healthcare, with a strong emphasis on the latter. In this sector, three spheres of privacy are necessarily interfered with. Firstly, private life and physical integrity are necessarily affected by medical actions. Secondly, local/spatial privacy concerns may rise during medical research, treatment, and stay in care institutions. Thirdly, informational privacy is at play. This concerns the processing of medical personal data, the control that patients can exercise over their medical data, and the obligation of doctors to keep medical personal data confidential. This section mainly focuses on informational privacy and data protection. It explains the concepts in the context of regulations.
