La télémédecine n’est pas du e-commerce mais de la médecine clinique

Conclusions En fonction de l’état des lois et de la réglementation en France et de l’état du droit communautaire en 2013, il n’est pas fondé au plan juridique d’assimiler la télémédecine clinique à du e-commerce. Objectives To demonstrate that in the current state of French national law and European law, clinical telemedicine cannot be amalgamated with electronic commerce. Methods To analyse the various European Directives and Communications published from 1998 to the end of 2012, as well as legal and regulatory texts published since 2009 in the French Code of Public Health. Results The authors demonstrate that European law on the practice of telemedicine is inconsistent and that the European Commission must determine the same legal framework for all member states of the European Union by 2020. The legal ambiguity between the concepts of e-health and clinical telemedicine is emphasised. Nearly all Codes of Medical Ethics in each European Union member state specify that clinical medicine cannot be a commercial practice. As a result, in the field of digital health, it is important to distinguish information society services, which can sometimes be a subset of e-health, from health care services such as clinical telemedicine. Conclusion In 2013, according to the state of French and European Union legal frameworks, clinical telemedicine and e-commerce cannot be amalgamated.
Source: European Research in Telemedicine - Category: Information Technology Source Type: research