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Legal Policy in the Sphere of Internet Medicine: Future Chalenges

Intensive development of information technologies  in  medicine  changes  ways  of  diagnostics  and  treatment,  a  form  of interaction of the doctor and the patient,  organization of the  treatment  and  recovery.  Most  closely  these  processes  are  connected  with Internet medicine development therefore in  article the legal policy  in this sphere is analyzed.  Methods.  Internet  medicine  research  as object  of  legal  policy  on  ground  of  philosophical  dialectic  method  of  knowledge,  general  scientific  group  of  formal  and  logical  methods, system approach and the structurally  functional analysis, and also  special scientific methods of law – comparative and legal methods, allowing to consider Internet medicine as  object  of the right and legal policy.  Results.  Authors come to a conclusion that the sphere of Internet  medicine  needs  carrying  out  the  adequate  legal  policy  directed  on  optimization  of  processes  of  integration  of  Internet  medicine in system of electronic health care. The specification of doctrinal bases, legal fixing of basic bioethical principles  as  a basis  of  legal  statuses of subjects  of medical legal relationship in Internet  medicine has to become the first step to its creation.