Current Issues of Legal Personnel Training in Telemedicine

Abstract

Nowadays, telemedicine has become an integral part of healthcare. Such services are provided both in Russia and foreign countries. Funding in this area increases every year. The economic and social value of these digital technologies in medicine is widely recognized. The worldwide coronavirus pandemic has only accelerated the implementation of telemedicine technologies and changed the attitude of citizens to online consultations. However, even now there are some problems. The study is devoted to analyzing one of them. The purpose of the study was to highlight the problematic aspects of training and retraining of legal personnel for healthcare institutions that provide telemedicine services. To do this, we have analyzed and summarized the factors that affect the requirements to lawyers who provide legal support of telemedicine services. The article highlights the areas of knowledge, necessary for lawyers that provide services in the field of telemedicine technologies. The result of the research will be the development of a proposal to reform the educational process of training lawyers in the field of telemedicine.