Information in the pregnancy register “on request”. The Ministry announces

According to a statement from the Ministry of Health, an amendment to the regulation is to be ready in August, which will introduce the principle of transferring information about pregnancy to the Medical Information System (SIM) only at the patient's express request. The regulation is to come into force in September.

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The Ministry of Health assessed that there is currently no formal obligation under EU regulations to provide information about pregnancy to the SIM.

As the Ministry of Health pointed out, this obligation results from the national regulation introduced by the PiS government, and the deadline for implementing the service of exchanging the patient's short health card (Patient Summary), which includes information on pregnancy, for member states is 2028.

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Earlier, the Ministry of Health announced that it does not plan to withdraw from the obligation to enter data on pregnancy in the register of medical events. “We are not currently conducting legislative work aimed at changing the provisions of the regulation,” the Ministry of Health's communications office reported. The ministry explained that this information is used to adapt therapy to the patient's condition, for example when she is unconscious.

Regulation signed by the Minister of Health Adam Niedzielski entered into force in June 2022. In October of the same year, entering data from the extended catalogue, including pregnancy, became mandatory.

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The regulations raise concerns among women that data on pregnancy loss will be used in court proceedings. Critics of the solution called the collection of pregnancy data in the IT system a pregnancy registry.