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Legal aspects of telemedicine
Kolačkovská, Lucie ; Šolc, Martin (advisor) ; Janoušková, Anežka (referee)
1 Legal aspects of telemedicine Abstract This thesis deals with the legal aspects of telemedicine or the provision of health services at a distance using information and communication technologies. Telemedicine is a new, rapidly developing phenomenon, however, its use in practice already exceeds the level of its legislative anchoring. The paper asks whether the legal regulation of telemedicine is adequate to protect the patient's subjective rights and, if not, to identify which legislative changes are required to achieve this level. The thesis defines the concept of telemedicine and its individual categories, which it illustrates with several case examples from practice. Furthermore, it examines the legal regulation of telemedicine in the context of the health care contract, where it analyses in detail the proposed amendment to the Health Services Act, which, if adopted, will anchor telemedicine in Czech legislation. It also analyses the key issues arising from the legislative anchoring of telemedicine, namely the authorisation to provide telemedicine services and the standard of care. It also examines a central aspect of the legal regulation of telemedicine, which is the protection of personal data routinely shared in the course of providing telemedicine services. The thesis also adresses selected foreign...
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