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LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

of December 11, 2020 No. 94-Z

About change of the laws concerning health care and rendering psychological assistance

Accepted by the House of Representatives on November 19, 2020

Approved by Council of the Republic on November 20, 2020

Article 1. Bring in the Law of the Republic of Belarus of June 18, 1993 No. 2435-XII "About health care" the following changes:

1. In Article 1 part one:

after paragraph one to add part with the paragraph of the following content:

"close relatives are parents, adoptive parents (adopters), full age children including adopted (adopted) brothers and sisters, the grandfather, the grandma, full age grandsons;";

after the paragraph of the sixth to add part with the paragraph of the following content:

"quality of medical care - set of the characteristics of medical care reflecting its capability to satisfy needs of the patient, timeliness of delivery of health care, degree of its compliance to clinical protocols and other regulatory legal acts for health care, and also extent of achievement of the planned result of delivery of health care;";

to state the paragraph of the seventh in the following edition:

"the clinical protocol - the technical regulatory legal act approved by the Ministry of Health and establishing general, provided in the structured type of the requirement to amount of delivery of health care to the patient taking into account possible types of medical care, forms and conditions of its rendering in case of certain disease, certain syndrome or certain clinical situation, and also containing options of medical intervention and the description of the sequence of actions of health workers taking into account syndrome, courses of disease, availability of complications and associated diseases, clinical situation, other factors influencing results of delivery of health care;";

after the paragraph of the eighth to add part with the paragraph of the following content:

"medical abilitation - complex of the medical services directed to forming, development and maintenance of functions of bodies or systems of organism of the patient, and also opportunities and capabilities of the person which natural formation is complicated;";

to exclude from paragraphs of the ninth, seventeenth and twenty second word "Republic of Belarus";

the paragraph the tenth after words of "patient", and "treatment" to add respectively with the words "change and maintenance of esthetic type of the patient", and "medical abilitation,";

the eleventh and twelfth to state paragraphs in the following edition:

"medical prevention - complex of the medical services directed to preservation and promotion of health of the patient, forming of healthy lifestyle, decrease in probability of origin and spread of diseases and pathological conditions, their early identification, establishment of the reasons and conditions of their origin and development, and also to prevention of adverse effect on health of the person of factors of the circle of its dwelling;

medical rehabilitation - complex of the medical services directed to complete or partial recovery broken and (or) compensation of the functions of bodies or systems of organism of the patient lost as a result of disease;";

after the paragraph of the twelfth to add part with the paragraph of the following content:

"medical technology - set of the interconnected medical services, medicines and medical products which can be used in case of delivery of health care;";

the fifteenth to state the paragraph in the following edition:

"medical products (products of medical appointment, medical equipment) (further - medical products) - any tools, devices, devices, the equipment, materials and other products which are applied in the medical purposes separately or in combination among themselves, and also with the accessories necessary for application of medical products to destination (including the special software) are intended by the producer for delivery of health care, including monitoring of condition of human body, carrying out medical researches, recovery, substitution, change of anatomical structure or physiological functions of its organism, prevention or termination of pregnancy and which functional purpose is not implemented by pharmacological, immunological, genetic or metabolic impact on human body, however can be supported by medicines;";

after the paragraph of the fifteenth to add part with the paragraph of the following content:

"the medical document - the document containing the diagnosis and (or) other data on the state of health of the patient, delivery of health care, recommendations, preventive inoculations, results of medical examination, medical examination, tool, laboratory, other researches and other medical data;";

after the paragraph of the eighteenth to add part with paragraphs of the following content:

"medical observation - the necessary examination of the patient conducted with certain frequency for the purpose of timely identification, the prevention of complications, exacerbations of diseases, other conditions, their prevention and implementation of medical rehabilitation;

method of delivery of health care - evidence-based set of the consecutive, interconnected medical interventions providing medical prevention, diagnostics, treatment, medical abilitation, medical rehabilitation and prosthetics;";

from the paragraph of the twenty sixth word", pharmaceutical substances" and Republic of Belarus to exclude;

from the paragraph of the twenty seventh word "Republic of Belarus" and ", pharmaceutical substances" to exclude;

add part with paragraphs of the following content:

"the electronic medical record of the patient - the structured set of electronic medical documents, records about the state of health of the patient, the facts of its request for medical care and other information on the patient in centralized information system of health care;

the electronic medical document - the medical document in electronic form with the details allowing to establish its integrity and authenticity which prove to be true by application of the certified means of the digital signature with use in case of verification of the digital signature of open keys of the organization or physical person (persons) which signed this electronic document.".

2. State Article 2 in the following edition:

"Article 2. Legal regulation of the relations in the field of health care

The relations in the field of health care are governed by the legislation on health care, international treaties of the Republic of Belarus, and also the international legal acts constituting the right of the Eurasian Economic Union.

The legislation on health care is based on the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus and consists of this Law, acts of the President of the Republic of Belarus and other acts of the legislation.

If the international treaty of the Republic of Belarus establishes other rules, than those which contain in this Law then are applied rules of the international treaty.".

3. The second Article 21 to add part with the paragraph of the following content:

"the operator of centralized information system of health care, and also on owners of the information systems and information resources performing obtaining, transfer, collection, processing, accumulating, storage and provision of medical information in the field of health care.".

4. From the paragraph of the sixth of Article 3, of the paragraph of third of Article 4, of Articles 6 and 7, of paragraphs two and third part one, parts of the second or sixth Article 11, 12, of part one and the paragraph of the fourth of part three of Article 13, Article parts two 182, of Articles 19, 21 and 23, Article parts three 26, Articles 30, Article parts three 36, of the paragraph of the eighth of Article 42, Article parts one 43, Article parts three 47, Article parts two 48, Article parts one 49, Articles 52, Article parts two 53, Article parts three 58, of Article 60 and the name of Chapter 12 of the word "Republic of Belarus" to exclude Articles.

5. In Article 5:

state part one in the following edition:

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