Peculiarities of the Legal Regulation of Personal Data Processing in Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals

The widespread use of modern methods of processing ever-growing arrays of data on the health status of individuals, including electronic medical records, databases of clinical trials, pharmacovigilance, health monitoring systems, increases the risks of violation of their confidentiality, which gives rise to new legal, technical, organizational challenges to the search for new solutions related to the safe processing of "vulnerable" information about individuals. The work is devoted to the comparative legal analysis of the peculiarities of personal data processing in healthcare and pharmaceutical industry, current approaches to regulation, practice of national and foreign courts and law enforcement authorities of foreign countries. Within the framework of the study it was considered the normative regulation of rules and approaches to the processing of personal data in national and foreign legislation, the practice of resolving emerging contradictions and proposed independent ways of their solution.