Act on the status and rights of patients.

In this Act: 1. the term patient is used of a person who uses health care services or is otherwise an object of them; 2. the terms health care and medical care mean measures taken by health care professionals or in a health care unit in order to assess the state of health of a person or to restore or maintain it. 3. the term health care professionals means persons referred to in section 2 of the Health Care Professionals Act (559/1994); (560/1994) 4. the term health care unit means health centres and other municipal units in charge of tasks as referred to in the Act on Primary Health Care (66/1972), hospitals and medical care units separate from hospitals and other entities responsible for providing care as decided by the joint municipal board for a hospital district referred to in the Specialized Medical Care Act (1062/1989), units providing health care services as referred to in the Private Health Care Act (152/1990), the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health as far as it provides health and medical care services referred to in the Act on the Activities and Financing of the Institute of Occupational Health (159/1978), State mental hospitals referred to in the Act on State Mental Hospitals (1292/1987), medical care institutions referred to in the Act on Arranging Health Care in the Defence Forces (322/1987), and health care units referred to in the Act on Criminal Sanctions Agency (953/2009); and (741/2011) 5. the term patient documents means the documents or technical records used, drawn up or arrived when the treatment of the patient is arranged and carried out and which contain information on his/her state of health or otherwise personal information about the patient.