Legal risks of digital medicine: problems and judgments

Abstract

Human health is the object of study of many sciences. In the age of entire digitalization, many new questions arise regarding the regulation of digitalization of the economy, healthcare, industry, etc. It is applicable in leading countries only to those sectors of the economy that have already reached a high level of so-called digital maturity.

Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the main problems associated with the legal regulation of the storage and processing of personal data of patients, ensuring the cybersecurity of medical systems, responsibility for errors in the use of artificial intelligence and teletypbiology. The author identifies major legal conflicts related to the transnational nature of digital medicine and proposes directions for their resolution. In the conditions of accelerated digitization of health care, attention was paid to the need to form a complex regulatory framework capable of protecting the rights of patients and minimizing risks.

This article is devoted to the issues of legal risks arising from the digitalization of healthcare and medicine, some ways to overcome them are proposed.