Abstract
The developments of ICT are anticipated as a solution to address the challenges of medical areas, such as medical treatment, preventive medicine. But now our country has been severely restricted in the "Medical Service Act" and "Personal Information Protection Act", with respect to the use of personal health information in its application for medical purposes, etc, therefore medical services using cloud computing and big data analysis are impossible. Already, leaders in the ICT sector such as Apple, Google and Samsung, pointed to digital healthcare industry as the next generation industry and has ventured a bold investment, however in Korea, the commercialization of these advanced digital healthcare services has been delayed. In this paper, we explore the regulatory Improvement of "personal health information" for the rational implementation of digital health care services.
Restrictions on the personal medical information based on the characteristics of the conventional health care settings are not proper and regulation of personal medical information that meets the new digital healthcare environment must be made. As the way, the paper proposed the following. ; First, the rational modification of the regulatory are needed for acceptance of new technologies such as cloud computing, etc. Second, the application range of the EMR system should be extended as to maximize the added value of personal health information. Third, the appropriate regulation and surveillance and monitoring system of healthcare apps and digital medical equipment that generates the personal health information were established so that the public interest in the medical area to be compliant in order to ensure the accuracy and reliability of personal health information.
Restrictions on the personal medical information based on the characteristics of the conventional health care settings are not proper and regulation of personal medical information that meets the new digital healthcare environment must be made. As the way, the paper proposed the following. ; First, the rational modification of the regulatory are needed for acceptance of new technologies such as cloud computing, etc. Second, the application range of the EMR system should be extended as to maximize the added value of personal health information. Third, the appropriate regulation and surveillance and monitoring system of healthcare apps and digital medical equipment that generates the personal health information were established so that the public interest in the medical area to be compliant in order to ensure the accuracy and reliability of personal health information.
| Translated title of the contribution | Study on the Reasonable Regulation and Use of Personal Information on Digital Healthcare Environment |
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| Original language | Korean |
| Pages (from-to) | 217-263 |
| Number of pages | 47 |
| Journal | IT와 법연구 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| State | Published - 2016 |