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Article 118-5第百十八条の五
Deletion(消去)
Article 118-5, paragraph (1)
A user of anonymized long-term care insurance-related information must, when it is no longer necessary to use the anonymized long-term care insurance-related information provided to the user, delete that anonymized long-term care insurance-related information without delay.
A user of anonymized long-term care insurance-related information must take the measures specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as necessary and appropriate for preventing the leakage, loss or damage of anonymized long-term care insurance-related information and for otherwise ensuring the security control of that anonymized long-term care insurance-related information.
A user of anonymized long-term care insurance-related information or a person who was such a user must not make known to another person without good reason, or use for an unjust purpose, the content of anonymized long-term care insurance-related information that the person came to know in connection with the use of anonymized long-term care insurance-related information.
Use or Provision of pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information for Improvement of Health and Medical Care and Enhancement of the Welfare of Citizens
Article 118-8, paragraph (1)(国民の保健医療の向上及び福祉の増進のための仮名介護保険等関連情報の利用又は提供)Use or Provision of pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information for Improvement of Health and Medical Care and Enhancement of the Welfare of CitizensAdded
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, in order to contribute to the improvement of health and medical care and the enhancement of the welfare of citizens, may use pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information (meaning long-term care insurance-related information processed in accordance with the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare so as to make it impossible to identify the person themselves pertaining to the long-term care insurance-related information unless it is collated with other information; the same applies hereinafter).
Article 118-8, paragraph (2)(国民の保健医療の向上及び福祉の増進のための仮名介護保険等関連情報の利用又は提供)Use or Provision of pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information for Improvement of Health and Medical Care and Enhancement of the Welfare of CitizensAdded
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, in order to contribute to the improvement of health and medical care and the enhancement of the welfare of citizens, when the Minister finds it necessary for a person listed in each of the following items who conducts the business specified in the respective items as business found to have considerable public interest in being conducted upon receipt of pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information to use pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information in order to conduct that business, may, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, provide said pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information to that person.
Article 118-8, paragraph (2), item (i)(国民の保健医療の向上及び福祉の増進のための仮名介護保険等関連情報の利用又は提供)Use or Provision of pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information for Improvement of Health and Medical Care and Enhancement of the Welfare of CitizensAdded
other administrative organs of the State and local governments: surveys concerning the planning and drafting of measures concerning health and medical services and welfare services pertaining to insurance benefits, measures for preventing falling into a Condition of Need for Long-Term Care, etc. or reducing or preventing deterioration of a Condition of Need for Long-Term Care, etc., and measures for supporting independent daily life in the community;
Article 118-8, paragraph (2), item (ii)(国民の保健医療の向上及び福祉の増進のための仮名介護保険等関連情報の利用又は提供)Use or Provision of pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information for Improvement of Health and Medical Care and Enhancement of the Welfare of CitizensAdded
universities and other research institutions: research on the maintenance and enhancement of the health of citizens and the maintenance and improvement of their abilities, and on the Insured Long-Term Care Project;
Article 118-8, paragraph (2), item (iii)(国民の保健医療の向上及び福祉の増進のための仮名介護保険等関連情報の利用又は提供)Use or Provision of pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information for Improvement of Health and Medical Care and Enhancement of the Welfare of CitizensAdded
private businesses and other persons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare: analysis concerning investigation and research in the long-term care field and other business specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (excluding that conducted for use in advertising or promoting specific goods or services).
Article 118-8, paragraph (3)(国民の保健医療の向上及び福祉の増進のための仮名介護保険等関連情報の利用又は提供)Use or Provision of pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information for Improvement of Health and Medical Care and Enhancement of the Welfare of CitizensAdded
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, when conducting the use or provision pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, may use said pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information in combination with the pseudonymized medical care-related information prescribed in Article 150-7, paragraph (1) of the Health Insurance Act, the pseudonymized medical insurance-related information prescribed in Article 16-7, paragraph (1) of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People, and other information specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, or provide it in a state in which it can be used in combination.
Article 118-8, paragraph (4)(国民の保健医療の向上及び福祉の増進のための仮名介護保険等関連情報の利用又は提供)Use or Provision of pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information for Improvement of Health and Medical Care and Enhancement of the Welfare of CitizensAdded
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, when intending to provide pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), must hear the opinion of the Social Security Council in advance.
Article 118-9, paragraph (1)(仮名介護保険等関連情報の提供を受ける者に対する利用目的等の制限の要求等)Requests for Restrictions on Purpose of Use, etc. to Persons Provided with pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information, etc.Added
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, when providing pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article and finding it necessary, is to impose, on a person who is provided with and uses pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph (hereinafter referred to as "user of pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information"), restrictions on the purpose or method of use of the provided pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information and other necessary restrictions.
Article 118-9, paragraph (2)(仮名介護保険等関連情報の提供を受ける者に対する利用目的等の制限の要求等)Requests for Restrictions on Purpose of Use, etc. to Persons Provided with pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information, etc.Added
The provisions of Article 68 and Article 76 through Article 107 of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (Act No. 57 of 2003) do not apply where the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare uses or provides pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2) of the preceding Article.
The provisions of Article 118-4 through Article 118-7 apply mutatis mutandis to the handling of pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information by a user of pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information.
Article 118-11, paragraph (1)(立入検査等)Site Inspections; Related MattersChanged
To the extent necessary for the enforcement of the provisions of this Chapter, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may order a user of anonymized long-term care insurance-related information and a user of pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information (excluding other administrative organs of the State; the same applies hereinafter hereinafter referred to as a "user of anonymized or pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information" in this paragraph and the following Article) to report, or to submit or present record books and documents, or may have its personnel question a user of anonymized long-term care insurance-related informationthe relevant person, or enter the office Business Office of a user of anonymized or pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information or any other place related to the use of anonymized long-term care insurance-related information or pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information and inspect its record books and documents and other items.
The provisions of Article 24, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to questions and inspections pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of paragraph (4) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to the authority granted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, respectively.
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, when finding that a user of anonymized or pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information is in violation of a restriction imposed pursuant to the provisions of Articles 118-4 through 118-7 (including a case applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 118-10) or the provisions of Article 118-9, paragraph (1) (including a case applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (2) of the following Article), may order that person to take measures necessary to correct the violation.
Article 118-13, paragraph (1)(機構等への委託)Entrustment to the Organization, etc.Changed
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may entrust all or part of the affairs concerning the investigation and analysis prescribed in Article 118-2, paragraph (1) and the use orand provision pursuant to the provisions of Article 118-3, paragraph (1) and Article 118-8, paragraphs (1) and (2) to the Organization, etc.
Article 118-13, paragraph (2)(機構等への委託)Entrustment to the Organization, etc.Added
The provisions of Article 118-9, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis where a person entrusted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph provides pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information on the basis of said entrustment.
Article 118-13, paragraph (3)(機構等への委託)Entrustment to the Organization, etc.Added
The provisions of Article 68 and Article 76 through Article 107 of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information do not apply where a person entrusted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) uses or provides pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information on the basis of said entrustment.
A user of anonymized long-term care insurance-related information must pay a fee in the amount specified by Cabinet Order, taking actual expenses into consideration, to the national government (or, in the case where the Organization, etc., having been entrusted by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, performs all of the affairs concerning the provision of anonymized long-term care insurance-related information pursuant to the provisions of Article 118-3, paragraph (1), to the Organization, etc.).
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, when a person who intends to pay the fee under the preceding paragraph is a prefecture or any other person specified by Cabinet Order as playing a particularly important role in improving health and medical care and enhancing the welfare of citizens, reduce or waive the fee as specified by Cabinet Order.
A fee paid to the Organization, etc. pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) is to be the revenue of the Organization, etc.
第一項の規定により機構等に納められた手数料は、機構等の収入とする。
Article 118-14, paragraph (4)(手数料)FeeAdded
The provisions of the preceding three paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis to the fee in the case where a user of pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information receives the provision of pseudonymized long-term care insurance-related information pursuant to the provisions of Article 118-8, paragraph (2).
A prefectural governor may provide necessary advice to a Municipality regarding technical matters for preparation of a Municipal Insured Long-Term Care Service Plan.
The Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare may provide necessary advice to a prefecture regarding technical matters for preparation of a Prefectural Insured Long-Term Care Service Plan.
The national government, when a Municipality or a prefecture intends to implement projects as prescribed in a Municipal Insured Long-Term Care Service Plan or a Prefectural Insured Long-Term Care Service Plan, must endeavor to provide necessary information, advice, and other assistance for the efficient implementation of said projects.
A prefecture is to endeavor to support the analysis by Municipalities under the provisions of Article 117, paragraph (6).
都道府県は、第百十七条第六項の規定による市町村の分析を支援するよう努めるものとする。
Article 120-2, paragraph (2)
A prefecture is to endeavor to conduct projects specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as projects supporting the initiatives of Municipalities within the prefecture for supporting independent daily life of their Insured Persons in the community, preventing them from falling into a Condition of Need for Long-Term Care, etc., or reducing or preventing deterioration of a Condition of Need for Long-Term Care, etc., and ensuring the appropriateness of the expenses required for Long-Term Care Benefit, etc.
A prefecture is to establish a council (hereinafter referred to as the "council" in this Chapter (excluding paragraph (2) of the following Article)) composed of the Municipalities, public employment security offices, the Prefectural Center (meaning the Prefectural Center prescribed in Article 93, paragraph (1) of the Social Welfare Act), the Care Work Stability Center (meaning the Care Work Stability Center prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (2) of the Act on Improvement of Employment Management and Other Matters for Care Workers (Act No. 63 of 1992)), organizations whose members are Long-Term Care Service Providers, educational institutions, and other relevant organizations (referred to simply as "relevant organization" in paragraph (3) of the following Article) within the area governed by said prefecture, in order to promote the efforts prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (4).
The council, in order to promote the efforts prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (4), is to exchange necessary information on the status and other circumstances pertaining to those efforts, and to hold consultations on measures for promoting those efforts in accordance with those circumstances.
The council prescribed in the preceding Article, in holding the consultations under the preceding paragraph, must respect the results of the consultations in the council prescribed in Article 92-2 of the Social Welfare Act if that council is established in the prefecture in which said council is established.
A prefecture and the relevant organizations constituting the council are, based on the results of the consultations under paragraph (1), to carry out in cooperation the efforts pertaining to the measures on which those consultations were held.
In addition to what is provided for in the preceding two Articles, matters necessary for the organization and operation of the council are to be specified by the council.
前二条に定めるもののほか、協議会の組織及び運営に関し必要な事項は、協議会が定める。
Article 120-6第百二十条の六
Confidentiality Obligations(秘密保持義務)
Article 120-6, paragraph (1)
A person engaged in the affairs of the council, or a person who was engaged in those affairs, must not divulge, without justifiable cause, any confidential information that the person has come to learn in relation to those affairs.