Protection of Patients’ Rights in the Provision of Telemedicine Services

Description

Telemedicine is a more important healthcare service. The service became particularly important during the COVID-19 pandemic, when public health risks were very high. The provision of health services made use of telemedicine, thus reducing the spread of the virus in the community. To provide a health service, a non-discriminatory, accessible service to all persons must be considered. Respecting equal rights of patients in health care. Telemedicine is provided in different ways - by video, telephone or other technological means. Telemedicine is widely used in remote healthcare consultations, where patients are allowed to send information to healthcare providers for review and analysis, as well as for providers to remotely monitor the patient's health status. Telemedicine has many advantages; accessibility of the service, reduced costs, while telemedicine may pose challenges for some populations. Without addressing the problems, telemedicine risks becoming inaccessible. . In the paper interpreted the legal provisions. The peculiarities of application and made proposals for improvement of normative regulations. The descriptive, analytical and deductive-inductive methods have been used in the work. Using these methods, the legislation has been analysed, the opinions of legal scholars have been recorded, conclusions have been drawn and proposals have been made. The methods are used to describe specific problems. The study also uses systematic review, and extraction, of thematic literature review.. Nowadays, telemedicine service is increasingly used as a healthcare service, however, there are no defined requirements in national legislation for the provision of this service, requirements that must be fulfilled by the service provider to make the service accessible to all patient groups, including patients with special needs. . The requirements for the provision of a telemedicine service need to be discussed and defined at national level, based on the need for the service, so that it is non-discriminatory and accessible to all persons.

Period	29 Mar 2023
Event title	RSU Research week 2023: PLACES
Event type	Conference
Conference number	3
Organiser	Rīga Stradiņš University
Location	Rīga, LatviaShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International