Research on Legal Protection of Patients’ Right to Privacy in China

Because of the development of society, public awareness of rights is constantly being activated, and the citizen no longer merely plays the role of obedience, and the action of protecting rights is becoming more and more conscious. Most notably in terms of health care, the media has reported a large number of cases that patients bring a suit with privacy violations as a matter of recourse to the Court for compensation in recent years .They reflect that the dispute caused by privacy has intensified the conflict between doctors and patients . Therefore, the research on the protection of patients ' right of privacy is of great significance to the protection of personality rights and the solution of existing doctor-patient contradictions. This article is divided into three parts: the cut-in point is the concept of patient privacy, the contents and features. And combined with the present situation of protection and the knotty problems in our country, solutions are put forward. When a complete and systematic protection system is established, the legal protection of patients ' privacy will not be an armchair theory any more.

Patients; medical institutions; privacy; legal protection

Lu Meng. Research on Legal Protection of Patients’ Right to Privacy in China. 2019 Scientific Conference on Management, Education and Psychology (SCMEP 2019). 2019, Vol.1: 184-187.