# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第六十九条の四 (Article 69-4) - 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: 第六十九条の四 (Article 69-4) — address `art-69-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-69-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-69-4 - 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. --- ### 第六十九条の四 art-69-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-69-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-69-4 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、医療提供体制の確保に資する調査、学術研究又は分析その他の医療法人情報の提供を受けて行うことについて相当の公益性を有する調査、学術研究又は分析（特定の商品又は役務の広告又は宣伝に利用するために行うものを除く。）を行う者に医療法人情報を提供することができる。 art-69-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-69-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-69-4/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, provide medical corporation information to a person who conducts surveys, academic research or analysis that contributes to ensuring the medical care delivery system, or other surveys, academic research or analysis that have considerable public interest in being conducted with the provision of medical corporation information (excluding those conducted for use in the advertisement or publicity of specific goods or services). machine translation, not official **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、前項の規定により医療法人情報を提供しようとする場合には、あらかじめ、社会保障審議会の意見を聴かなければならない。 art-69-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-69-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-69-4/par-2 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare intends to provide medical corporation information pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Minister must hear the opinions of the Social Security Council in advance. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-69-4/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第六十九条の四第一項 (Article 69-4, paragraph (1)), art-69-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-69-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-69-4/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第六十九条の四第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-69-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-69-4/par-2 - 医療法 第六十九条の五第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-69-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-69-5/par-1 - 医療法 第六十九条の六第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-69-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-69-6/par-1 - 医療法 第六十九条の七第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/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/ja/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