G-1.021 - Act respecting the governance of the health and social services system

Section 76 Disposition versions

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76. Santé Québec establishes a national information filing system.

The system must enable the following, among other things:

(1)  the keeping, by Santé Québec, of the records of users who receive health services or social services from public institutions;

(2)  the keeping, by private institutions, institutions governed by the Act respecting health services and social services for the Inuit and Naskapi (chapter S-4.2) and the Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay, of the records concerning, as applicable, their users or their beneficiaries, and the preserving, on their behalf, of the information contained in those records;

(3)  the indexing of information held by the other health and social services bodies within the meaning of the Act respecting health and social services information (chapter R-22.1) and contained in the records they keep on the persons who receive from them services in the field of health and social services;

(4)  the sharing of prescriptions between health and social services bodies within the meaning of that Act and with the persons concerned;

(5)  the keeping, by the Minister, of a consent registry for the post-mortem removal of organs and tissues;

(6)  the keeping, by Santé Québec, of a register of the advance medical directives and advance requests for medical aid in dying governed by the Act respecting end-of-life care (chapter S-32.0001);

(7)  the putting in place, by Santé Québec, of a mechanism enabling a person to find a health or social services professional who belongs to a class of professionals, and practises in premises belonging to a class, identified by the Minister and who agrees to provide medical care to them in collaboration, if applicable, with other professionals;

(8)  the putting in place, by Santé Québec, of a mechanism for booking appointments with a health or social services professional who belongs to a class of professionals, and practises in premises belonging to a class, identified by the Minister;

(9)  the simplifying of access to and of any other use and communication of information, in accordance with the information protection regimes applicable to it, in particular the regime provided for by the Act respecting health and social services information; and

(10)  the implementing of any other functionality determined by regulation of Santé Québec.

It must also enable the logging of every access to the system by a person, whether the purpose of the access is to file information in the system, to use the information or to be given communication of it.

Despite section 6, this chapter applies to the territories referred to in sections 530.1 and 530.89 of the Act respecting health services and social services for the Inuit and Naskapi and to the territory of the Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay established under the Act respecting health services and social services for Cree Native persons (chapter S-5).

2023, c. 34, s. 76.