Patient Privacy and Clinical Materials

Last updated: 2 September 2026

Ukrainian healthcare law protects information about health, diagnosis, examination and private life. Medical workers and others who learn it through professional duties must preserve medical secrecy except where law permits disclosure.

Default to de-identification: remove names/initials, contacts, addresses, unnecessary exact dates, record numbers, QR/barcodes, identifying institution labels, faces unless clinically essential and lawfully authorized, voices, metadata, tattoos/distinctive marks and rare fact combinations.

If identifiable material is genuinely necessary, the uploader must have a lawful basis, appropriate patient/legal-representative authorization, institutional permission where required, ethical justification and rights to the content. Consent should specifically cover educational/publication use, online audience, international access, images/video/voice and duration. UCS may still reject identifiable content. Children, vulnerable persons, facial images, war injuries, trauma, intimate content and rare cases require heightened review.

Contact

Questions, privacy requests, complaints and security reports: info@uasurgeons.org. UCS may reasonably verify identity and authority before acting on a request.