This post was written by Daniel Kadar.

As a champion for the protection of personally identifiable information and with broad definitions for the concepts of personal and medical data, France has established a very specific set of policies requiring that all bodies hosting medical data must apply for official accreditation or work with an accredited medical data host. When medical data is hosted during a prevention, diagnosis or treatment activity – the scope of which covers most of the activities of the health care industry, which is experiencing and will experience a considerable development with telemedicine in the broad sense – the issue of the accreditation of the hosting services will be raised. To learn more about situations requiring the use of authorized hosting services in France, read our client alert.