Legally Telemedicine workshop

Legally Telemedicine workshop

On Wednesday 18 February 2009, 13.00 – 16.00 The European Commission is organising a workshop called "Legally Telemedicine"

On 4 November 2008 the Commission has adopted the Communication from the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on telemedicine for the benefit of patients, healthcare systems and society. In this Communication the Commission defined in the area of legal clarity an action for 2009 - to publish, in cooperation with Member States, an analysis of the Community legal framework applicable to telemedicine services.

The objective of this workshop is to discuss legal clarity for telemedicine, in particular for teleradiology and telemonitoring and thus to provide an input for the forthcoming action. A number of legal and regulatory problems will be specifically discussed, such as licensing, accreditation and registration of telemedicine professionals, liability, reimbursement, jurisdiction and personal data protection. This workshop, in order to provide the most adequate responses to current legal challenges to telemedicine, will be focused on the practical situations and cases brought by telemedicine providers. Information gathered in the Study on Legal Framework of Interoperable eHealth in Europe will be also shared among the participants. The ultimate goal of the workshop is to provide the legal responses to the most universal situations which can be common to all telemedicine providers.

Location: Hotel Ambassador - Embassy meeting room

Register to attend the "Legally Telemedicine" workshop

Please note that only those who are registered to the eHealth2009 Conference can register to this workshop.

The registration is now open. The number of seats in the meeting room is limited, therefore the Commission reserves the right to confirm, on a free selection basis, only as many registrations as seats available.

Please consider your registration as completed only if a confirmation e-mail is sent to you by 16th February 2009 at the latest.

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