# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第六十九条の三 (Article 69-3) - Law: 医療法 (Medical Care Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二百五号 - English title "Medical Care Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第六十九条の三 (Article 69-3) — address `art-69-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-69-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-69-3 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第六十九条の三 art-69-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-69-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-69-3 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、その業務の遂行に支障のない範囲内において、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、一般からの委託に応じ、医療法人情報を利用して、医療法人情報を利用して行うことについて相当の公益性を有する統計の作成及び統計的研究として厚生労働省令で定めるもの（第六十九条の七及び第六十九条の八第一項において「統計の作成等」という。）を行うことができる。 art-69-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-69-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-69-3/par-1 To the extent that it does not interfere with the performance of the operations of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, the Minister may, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, in response to entrustment from the general public, use medical corporation information to prepare statistics and conduct statistical research that are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as having considerable public interest in being carried out using medical corporation information (referred to as "preparation of statistics, etc." in Article 69-7 and Article 69-8, paragraph (1)). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-69-3/par-1: 第六十九条の七 → 医療法 第六十九条の七 (Article 69-7), art-69-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-69-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-69-7 - art-69-3/par-1: 第六十九条の八第一項 → 医療法 第六十九条の八第一項 (Article 69-8, paragraph (1)), art-69-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-69-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-69-8/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第六十九条の七第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-69-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-69-7/par-1 - 医療法 第六十九条の八第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-69-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-69-8/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 医療法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000205/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Care Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-care-act-20261019T151250-008, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19