The meeting “Protection of Medical Data Online” will take place on 19 April from 19:00 in the Innovation Starter office (1 Bulgaria Blvd., NDK administrative building) and is organised by Sofia Legal Hackers, in cooperation with LIBRe Foundation and LexMedica (leading medical law firm in Bulgaria).
The main focus of the event will be on the following aspects:
- Legal regime of telemedicine, medical confidentiality in conditions of virtual medicine, contract for remote treatment of common conditions and others.
- Protection of personal data in modern medicine: health data and biometric data as special categories of personal data; explicit consent under Directive 95/46/EC and Regulation (EU) 2016/679; technical and organizational measures for data protection; processing of data from electronic health records (EHR) and the associated risks of the processing.
The topic will be presented by:
Maria Petrova, MD, JD, MPH - one of the leading experts in Europe with MSc degrees in both Medicine (Medical University, Sofia) and Law (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Law School). She has specialised in England, Germany, Austria, and France in fields such as “Medical Law”, “European Health Law”, “Health Mediation and Conflict Resolution in Health Care”, “Legal Aspects of Medical Malpractice”, and others. Her work experience includes expert position at the National Ombudsman of Bulgaria, as well as legal consultant at non-profit organisations dedicated to patients’ rights, such as the National Patients Organisation, Bulgarian Patient Protection Association, Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, etc. She has also been providing independent expertise in pre-trial proceedings. She is a legal consultant to “Partnership for Health” - a consultative body to the Council of Ministers. She is a member of Sofia Bar Association and the International Association of Lawyers where she has been regularly invited as a speaker at conferences and seminars in Medical Law – focused on medical malpractice, liability insurance for professional risk for medical practitioners, contracts for medical services / aid, etc. She is engaged in and has been contributing to the support of people with chronic and rare diseases, the supply of medicines in remote and small settlements, the improvement of the structure and functions of the organs of medical expertise, and the solutions to problems associated with regulatory standards and closure of hospitals in the country.
Ivo Emanuilov – Legal Researcher, Master of Law in Intellectual Property and ICT Law at KU Leuven in Belgium, with research interests and specialisation in ICT Law, International Aviation Law, and Space Law. He is working on Belgian and international research projects related to data protection, biometric data and identity management, cybersecurity, and unmanned aircraft, and aviation safety. He has experience as a consultant in personal data protection, consumer protection, e-Commerce, and other fields. His research interests focus on privacy and data protection, network and information security of critical infrastructures, public and private international aviation and space law, aviation safety, autonomous systems, and adaptive software.
More details on the meeting could be found at the event’s Facebook page.
This is the second public event dedicated to medical data which is participated by LIBRe Foundation and LexMedica in cooperation. In October 2016 their experts participated at the Fourth Annual National Conference on Bioethics and Biolaw with a paper on “Medical Social Networks – Bio-ethical and Bio-legal Aspects”.