The legislative project that seeks the regulation of health providers to provide telemedicine care passed to a Mixed Commission in the Chilean Senate.
The regulation of telemedicine continues to advance in the Chilean Senate. This project seeks to modify the law of duties and rights of patients, by regulating health care regardless of the care modality, face-to-face or through telemedicine. The bill recently became part of a Mixed Commission.
In this sense, both the senators involved and the Ministry of Health agreed that the project can be improved through a Mixed Commission, in which a definitive text will be drafted and presented.
One of the members of the Health Commission, Senator Juan Luis Castro, explained that “this project lacks a regulation, that is why it is important to work on it in a Mixed. This is because it will allow, among other things, to reduce waiting lists. There is an agreement to work transversally in the Mixed Commission”.
The project addresses the conditions in which health providers can provide remote care, the use of technologies to exchange information related to diagnosis, therapy, rehabilitation, palliative care, disease prevention, injuries, research and evaluation.
Similarly, this law initiative considers the use of telemedicine in outpatient and hospital care conditions.
