1. According to the Act on hospital establishments every patient has the right to privacy.
2. The Law concerning the protection of persons at the processing of personal data prohibits the processing of personal data which are related to health, genetic data included. This prohibition to process does not prevail when the person concerned has consented, except when the law prohibits this; additionally. The prohibition is also not applicable when the processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the person concerned or of another person, in the case of physical or legal impossibility to give consent.
3. When the processing of medical information is necessary for the aims of preventive medicine, medical diagnosis, care giving, applying treatment, the management of health services, research in the field of biology and medicine, this information may be processed  by medical agencies, as well as, provided that the agency is subjected to the professional secrecy, (among others) by the organisms of social security, by administrations that manage these data in execution of their legal and lawful tasks, and by the insurance companies. For such processing the preceding consent of the privacy Commission is necessary.
4. The patient is entitled to access the data that concerns him. This right can be exercised by him personally or by mediation of a physician indicated by him. After the death of the patient, this right to access can be exercised by every person who formed a family with the patient when the patient passed away, or, in the case of a minor, his father and mother, by mediation of a doctor indicated by them.

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