Vaccaroli, Raffaella http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1805-2664
Markus, Frédéric
Danhardt, Samuel
Zimmermann, Heiko
Wisniewski, Francois
Lucas, Pascale
Barge, Hervé
Article History
Received: 20 August 2019
Accepted: 2 July 2020
First Online: 17 July 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Not applicable. The law on identification of natural persons [CitationRef removed] defines that the data relating to the identification of natural persons must be gathered in the National Registry of Natural Persons (RNPP). In addition to this law, the article 60(3) and 60(4) of the law of the 17 December 2010 as well as the Social Security Code [CitationRef removed, CitationRef removed] describe the legal bases of the MPI as “patient identification repository directory”. As such, the required ethical approval or permission are provided by these laws and valid when this information is used by the agency for the purpose of identity vigilance.
: Not applicable.
: All the authors are declared employees of the government EIG eSanté agency. The national health fund (2/3) and the health ministry (1/3) of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg financed this EIG. Maincare Solutions may financially benefit from this manuscript as provider of the IdeoIdentity application.