The Supreme Helsinki Committee for Medical Experiments on Humans today (Wednesday) forwarded to the Ministry of Health its decision regarding the establishment of a huge database on those infected in Corona in Israel – N12 has learned.
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The Ministry of Health is interested in setting up a database of the data of everyone who was infected in Corona, and has also already set up the infrastructure for it. This is a database of patients’ medical records that will be stunted, with no identifying details and is designed to enable research on the corona virus that will help deal with it. Because medical experiments on humans in Israel require the approval of ethics committees, which are the Helsinki Committees, the ministry has already applied this summer to a committee that will approve its establishment.
The committee, headed by Prof. Eitan Friedman, formulated a proposal for the Ministry of Health that includes two conditions designed to preserve the details of patients in the database:
- Obtaining a legal opinion from a body that is not within the Ministry of Health, preferably to the Ministry of Justice
- Allowing anyone to request that their data be removed from the database (opt-out)
The two conditions set by the committee are binding in the event that they are included in a database that is purely non-clinical – that is, if a study of the data is required to cross-reference socio-economic data from the National Insurance database, for example or with CBS data.
In order to maintain this data, any research conducted on this database will be performed on certain computers so that the information does not come out of the database and when the information is matched – the patient’s identifying details are deleted and will require separate committee approval. For example, in the event that one of the companies that makes the vaccines wants to use the information for its research, it will have to apply and get approval from the Helsinki Committee before gaining access to it.
“It is strictly forbidden to transfer the data from the corona database,” Prof. Friedman stressed. “This database is different from the vaccinators database. Through the Ethics Committee. ” If the Ministry of Health agrees to the terms of the Helsinki Committee, it still faces a challenge: HMOs must agree to pass on the data in their possession.