Legal regulation of providing medical services through telemedicine: realities and prospects in Ukraine

Abstract

Introduction: Telemedicine today - is providing medical care at distance by means of information and communication technologiest o f promote global health, medical care (diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases) as well as teaching, administration and research in medicine. Purpose and Objectives: To describe and define the legal provision of scheduled telemedicine projects in Ukraine, namely realization telemedical consultations with the provision of the results of instrumental examination of patients. Materials and Methods: The Constitution of Ukraine, the Civil Code, the Law of Ukraine "Fundamentals of Ukraine on Health Care," "On Access to Public Information", "On Personal Data Protection". Methods: Compare a tivelegal, formal logical, systematic and structural. Results: According to Article 10 of the Law of Ukraine "On Access to Public Information" every person has the right to know, when collecting information priorities use that information about and for what purpose used, transmitted or distributed. And the right on compensation for disclosure of that person. The development of telemedicine in Ukraine is dialectical in nature. On the one hand, it is possible to obtain medical care for patients in every part of the country, on the other - it is the availability of legal lever age over the health care worker to protect the personal data of the patient and their practical application. Separately, when considering this issue there is a problem directly telemedicine to provide such services as online consultations in real time, review and analysis of selected clinical situations in which the process of medical care group of doctors in case of emergency conditions the patient consults with experts on related disciplines, thus using his personal information to submit personal data to thirds ideprior agree men with him (her), thus violating Article 10 of the Law of Ukraine "On Access to Public Information". Thus the patient can no to be sure that its personal data are transmitted truly medical professionals. Conclusions: To date, Ukraine providing medical services through telemedicine and legal support areat a rudimentary level, which requires the establishment of an appropriate regulatory frame work to protect, first of all, the rights of patients.