Telemedicine: responsibilities and contractual framework.
The rapid growth of telemedicine has created a need for a definition of the responsibilities of the doctors involved. These responsibilities must be analyzed according the tort of negligence as a function of the level of competence of each doctor, their unequal access to the relevant information and their command of the telemedicine system. This analysis leads on to a study of the legal value of the electronic records kept and the ways in which the doctors are remunerated.
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Service d'Informatique Médicale, C.H.U. de Dijon, France.
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D002983:Clinical Competence; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D010819:Physician's Role; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards