Telemedicine and Its Legal Aspects

Telemedicine in the mean of distance medicine is one of the ways to provide health services that use new technology and modern computer medical equipment. Telemedicine offers advice extended services such as remote consulting or referral services to specialist (Tele consultation), Remote Radiology (Tele Radiology), Tele Cardiology, Tele pathology, And Robotic Surgery, using medical equipment such as Tele stethoscope (Stethoscope Remote ) and Remote ears exam, From Psychiatry internal Medicine, Rehabilitation, Children, Neurology And Women And childbirth, Tele dermatology, Genetic counseling and nutrition, Emergency And distance medical treatment, psychiatric treatment by Tele communications, Ongoing virtual education of Doctors, Medical and health information to individuals and remote surgery. The provision of telemedicine services to patients requires their informed consent about how services are provided, the treatment method and the potential risks of this method. Telemedicine providers sometimes are doctors and sometimes medical centers. When these services are provided by doctors, the patient’s contracting party is a medical doctor who, for example, is advising or treating him or her online and, and the responsibility of the doctor is sometimes in the form of contractual liability due to breach of contractual obligations and sometimes in the form of no contractual liability of a fault comes from his error. In contrast, when services such as remote surgery are provided to patients at the treatment centers, the treatment center where the surgery is performed in is the patient's contract party. Even though the contractual relationship between the patient and the physician is not implied in this assumption, but the responsibility of the doctor's mistakes is based on grounds such as responsibility of the employer, responsibility for substitution and apparent representation with the health center.

Keywords: Telemedicine, Long distance medicine, Distance doctor, Hospital, Patient, Civil liability in Telemedicine.