Telemedicine: The Status and Development Prospects

Abstract

Legislation in the field of e-health, adopted in 2017, opens up fundamentally new opportunities in the development of medical care using telemedicine technologies. The article provides an analysis of regulatory legal documents that establish the legal framework for the provision of medical care using telemedicine technologies. An assessment is given of the current state of the legal regulation of telemedicine in Russia. The main legal risks are identified in the practical implementation of telemedicine technologies, including the risks of identifying participants in telemedicine consultations. The procedure for transferring and entering information into the federal register of electronic medical documents and the integrated electronic medical record is not defined. The legal and organizational problems in regulating the interactions of medical organizations with the unified state health information system and other information systems are identified. The law on telemedicine requires adjustment and refinement of existing regulatory legal acts, procedures, standards for the provision of medical care with detailed regulation of tools and situations of their application. For the further development of digital health care, in particular telemedicine, electronic document management, electronic prescriptions and a unified state health information system, it is necessary to develop comprehensive rules for all telemedicine service providers. Due to the current situation in healthcare, now is the perfect time to create telemedicine technologies and other e-health products that will help in solving public health problems.