In the context of the recently adopted law, teleconsultation is a new solution for mutual communication between the doctor and the patient. The introduced legal provisions are to improve contact with the doctor and his or her availability for the patient as a person in need of help. Such form of advice, or consultation is right now a health service provided by the doctor over distance using electronic communication channels (online, telephone). The epidemic safety means and the recommendations concerning caution in contacts with others during the ongoing COVID – 19 pandemic are key. The doctor, owing to the specific nature of the profession, is particularly exposed to the risk of infection from the patients or the places where he or she must stay. In order to counteract the COVID – 19 pandemic, new legislation has been introduced such as the Act of 2 March 2020 on special solutions related to preventing, counteracting and combating COVID-19, other infectious diseases and crisis situations caused by them and its later amendment of 31 March 2020, as well as the Regulation of the Minister Health of 12 August 2020 on the organizational standard of a teleconsultation within primary health care. The legal provisions included in these acts are related to the principles of providing health services by doctors in the form of a teleconsultation. The act determines and clarifies what a teleconsultation is, as a form of a mutual communication channel between the doctor and the patient, and the regulation applies to health services provided in this way within primary health care (POZ, family doctors), by POZ doctors. For the doctor, the changes introduced in the law are important, because they determine the new formula of providing health services, the way they are provided and the manner this fact is recorded in the medical documentation.

Teleconsultation – Legal Aspects

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