Updated: Feb 1, 97
LISAIM

Legal Issues Study in Advanced Informatics in Medicine

Contract Code: 78695 Project value: 5 KECU EC contribution: 5 KECU No of partners: 1 No of countries: 1 Duration: 2 months

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This study identified the legal issues, problems and obstacles which have arisen as a result of the R&D projects financed by the AIM Program 1991-94. For this purpose the projects were studied as to their legal content and in particular those which included a legal work package. This allowed for a mapping out of the legal aspects relevant in the field of medical informatics and for an assessment of further legal questions, some of which had as yet perhaps not been perceived as such. Legally speaking information technology is still a relatively new entity in the health care sector, which means that more legal research is needed on all of these issues and legal solutions may be devised on different levels, such as legislation/directives, recommendations, guidelines, codes of practice etc. Furthermore, such legal research and any resulting recommendations may have a real impact on the future course of the law in this field.

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