Telemedicine in the Czech Republic and the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Telemedicine in the Czech Republic and the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine

Original language description

In recent years, telemedicine has been increasingly discussed in the professional discourse on health care. Yet there remain many unanswered critical questions including its definition and classification, legal liability for malpractice, or the application of concepts such as the standard of care or informed consent. In the Czech Republic, telemedicine has only recently started to be introduced into law, with only a limited scope of telemedical services being legally safe to perform for providers that do not have the patient in their &quot;physical&quot; care. The approach to telemedicine varies among jurisdictions, from very permissive Sweden to rather conservative stance to the standard of care took by, for example, some of the professional associations in the USA. In this paper, we analyse four articles of the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine that apply directly to the practice of telemedicine, setting broad rules for the equitable access to health care, standard of care, informed consent, and compensation for harm. In order to improve - or at least preserve - the equitable accessibility of quality health care, it is necessary to allow reasonable modifications of the standard of care so that in the assessment of permissibility of the use of telemedicine in particular cases, certain disadvantages of telemedicine might be outweighed by its benefits. Patients need to be informed about the remote nature of proposed medical services when this information is able to rationally alter their decision regarding their informed consent. There is no need to alter the system of legal liability for medical malpractice in telemedicine, its current principles being sufficient to enable patients achieve fair compensation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Czech Yearbook of Public and Private International Law

ISSN

1805-0565

e-ISSN

1805-0999

Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2023

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

347-359

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85185653895