French Public Health Code
In forceHealthcare establishments transmit to the regional health agencies, to the State or to the public body it designates and to the health insurance bodies the information relating to their operating resources, their activity, and their health, demographic and social data which are necessary for drawing up and revising the regional health project, for determining their resources, for evaluating the quality of care, for health monitoring and vigilance, and for controlling their care activity and billing.
The recipients of the information referred to in the previous paragraph shall implement, under the supervision of the State at national level and the agencies at regional level, a common information system which respects the anonymity of patients or, failing this, does not include their surname, first name or registration number in the National Register for the Identification of Natural Persons, and for which the conditions of preparation and accessibility to third parties, in particular public and private health establishments, are defined by regulation.
Establishments which do not transmit the information mentioned in the first paragraph under the conditions and within the deadlines set by regulation are liable to a penalty imposed by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency, up to a limit of 5% of their annual health insurance revenue.
