Udzielanie świadczeń zdrowotnych z wykorzystaniem teleinformatycznych środków przekazu
ICT Media in the Treatment Process

Summary/Abstract: Telemedicine is the latest form of the provision of health services, which in many areas replaces the classic process of diagnostic and therapeutic medical implying personal contact with the patient. Before the entry into force of the amendment of the Act on professions of physician and dentist, the law allowed for the use of ICT tools only in an indirect way. Not sanctioning their use directly, and not only by banning their use in specific situations. Current law permits the use of ICT media in the treatment process. The use of ICT tools in the treatment process is the possibility of execution by the medical profession duty to exercise due diligence through the use of optimal methods and forms of conduct in promising the greatest chance of success. In addition, as shown by solutions from other countries where telemedicine healthcare services are funded in part with public funds, the use of ICT media in the treatment process has a direct impact on the consideration of criteria of efficiency of financial and organizational, and thereby reducing health care costs. Although the amendment to the Act on the profession of doctor and dentist allows teleconsultation and tele-supervision, such rules do not contain a clear and precise algorithms relating to the question of responsibility for the failure in a broad treatment or the occurrence of adverse medical events in during the provision of health "at a distance". Current regulations do not apply to principles of providing information and collecting consent to the treatment provided through ICT tools.

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