유비쿼터스 시대를 위한 의료법의 개선방안

Medical laws Improvement Plan for a ubiquitous Health - mainly on Telemedicine

Since 2000, Our government, healthcare institution and industrial circles has been showing very high concern at the development of the information of the health medical treatment and u-Health. We need consequently the maintenance of the health medical treatment field to suit a ubiquitous Health environment of a law department system. Convergence with the IT technology which has an impact on the society where mainly on the health care, education, transportation, and etc. I present the improvement suggestion and its reasons by counter-proposal of existing statute review and development. The current main issues of the legislative system and the law improvement suggestion for the u-Health activation which is related to the ubiquitous Health in which the medicine field and IT technology convergence appearance. that is, Electronic Medical Record, Telemedicine and E-Prescription and a plan for the recognition of telemedicine in the national health insurance systems and etc. This paper is aimed at investigating the current status of domestic telemedicine and an appearance background of the u-Health, in a general way. The Healthcare of an ubiquitous epoch has prospected of an instrument of solution to a fee for radical increasing of medical treatment, because an advanced age and environmental pollution etc. Second, It is needed a regulation of the Electronic Medical Record(EMR) and e-Prescription, because these was the very core element. Third, We must acknowledge fringe benefit of the national health insurance systems about a telemedicine. Thus, We need consequently the maintenance of the health medical treatment field to suit a ubiquitous Health environment of a law system.