Singapore legislation

Clause 56

of Health Information Bill

Clause 56

Use of relevant information

(1)

This section applies in relation to the use of relevant information about any individual (P) that a recipient (B) collects from a discloser (A) pursuant to a data sharing agreement between A and B.

(2)

The following persons must not use relevant information about P except to implement or facilitate a use case specified in the data sharing agreement between A and B:

(a)

B;

(b)

a health data intermediary of B;

(c)

a personnel of B;

(d)

a personnel of a health data intermediary of B.

(3)

A health data intermediary of B, or any personnel of any health data intermediary of B, may process relevant information about P for the purpose of enabling or facilitating B’s use of that relevant information for the use case mentioned in subsection (2).

(4)

B must ensure that relevant information about P is made available to any personnel of B or a health data intermediary of B only to the extent that is necessary to enable the personnel or health data intermediary (as the case may be) to carry out any function or perform any duty relating to the implementation or facilitation of the use case mentioned in subsection (2).

(5)

B must comply with any condition or restriction in relation to the use of relevant information under this Part that may be prescribed.

(6)

For the purposes of subsection (5), different conditions or restrictions may be prescribed for —

(a)

different recipients or classes of recipients;

(b)

different use cases; and

(c)

different types of relevant information about an individual.