International legal regulation of medical care using telemedicine technologies

The implementation of the priority project "Improving the processes of organizing medical care based on the introduction of information technologies" for 2016-2025 revealed the need for a scientific analysis of the features of international legal regulation of medical care using telemedicine technologies. The subject of the study is normative and methodological sources defining the rights and obligations in the field of medical care with the use of telemedicine technologies, as well as mechanisms for their implementation. The author presents a classification of international sources on the provision of medical care using telemedicine technologies, depending on their legal force and the subject-territorial scope of international sources. The international acts concluded within the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States are analyzed in detail. Special attention is paid to the sources adopted by the International Labour Organization and the World Health Organization. The methodological basis of the research consists of general scientific methods of system analysis and generalization of normative, scientific and practical materials; private scientific methods – comparative jurisprudence, logical, technical and legal and others. The scientific novelty of the article is determined by the fact that it is a comprehensive study of the features of international legal regulation of medical care using telemedicine technologies. The main conclusions of the conducted research are the unresolved nature of many legal issues in the regulation of relations for the provision of medical care using telemedicine technologies. In particular, the prescriptions of the CIS Model Law of 2010 "On Telemedicine Services" have not been consolidated in the norms of national legislation, the issues of telemedicine of the bilateral Agreement dated January 24, 2006 "On the procedure for providing medical care to citizens of the Russian Federation in healthcare institutions of the Republic of Belarus and citizens of the Republic of Belarus in healthcare institutions of the Russian Federation" and others have not been finally resolved. Among the most significant results is the conclusion about giving normative meanings to documents of the World Health Organization that do not have signs of normativity (research results, reports, strategies).