[Medical training in the information society. Preparing legislation for health care revolution].
The information society is continuously pushing to a rapid change und updating of laws and training and qualification programs from which medicine is not excluded. This paper summarises the norms and laws applicable to telemedicine with three basic principles involved: medical practice, data management, and communication technologies. Following the subsidiary principle, the applicable legislative levels are: European Union, National, Autonomous Community, Medical Professional Colleges, and Local Medical Colleges. Contradictory and little innovative issues appear in the results and discussion sections of the deontologic codes, the pressing demand on doctors' awareness and to provide them with technical skills. An exhortation follows to work out an informative-ethic code for the telemedicine practice.
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Cátedra de Anatomía Patológica, Responsable Cátedra Unesco de Telemedicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de La Laguna, La Cuesta, 38071 Tenerife. catai@redkbs.com
Abreu Reyes
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Abreu González
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Suárez Delgado
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Sola-Reche
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D022126:Access to Information; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000639:trends*; D013030:Spain; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*