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KMID : 0986720220300020079
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Korean Journal of Medicine and Law
2022 Volume.30 No. 2 p.79 ~ p.102
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Legal Issues of Developing Digital Healthcare in the post-COVID-19 Era
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Lee Han-Joo
Eom Ju-Hee
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Abstract
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Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in December 2019, many changes have occurred in the medical system as it has expanded into a pandemic for a considerable period of time. Even though patients need to visit medical institutions for medical treatment or regular checkups, they are reluctant to visit the hospital due to the risk of infection, or medical institutions are minimizing visits by guardians other than patients. Patients still want to receive quality medical services, but it is not easy, and medical institutions are experiencing management difficulties due to a sharp decrease in the number of patients.
In order to curb the spread of COVID-19, South Korea has also temporarily allowed non-face-to-face medical treatment, which enables telephone counseling and prescriptions, from February 2020. In addition, in accordance with the revision of the Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Act in December 2020 and the 4th Infectious Disease Control Committee deliberation and resolution, until the end of the spread of infectious diseases, the government is Patients with chronic diseases were allowed to consult over the phone, prescribe, and prescribe by proxy without visiting the doctor according to the doctor's judgment.
In this paper, we discuss whether it is desirable to maintain a non-face-to-face treatment system in the process of COVID-19 becoming endemic, along with the digital healthcare industry, people's right to health, and the public nature of medical care, and determine the direction of future legislation.
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KEYWORD
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Digital Healthcare, Non-face-to-face Medical Care, Right to Health, the Right to Self-determination, Post COVID-19
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