Legal Protection for Telemedicine Patients Based on Pancasila Justice Values

Abstract

The current development of telemedicine can be seen as an opportunity to open wider access for the public to health services. On the other hand, it provides new challenges to adapt various aspects of health services for people in Indonesia and all nations in the world. The aim of this research is to analyze and formulate legal protection for telemedicine patients that adheres to Pancasila justice. The research method used is normative juridical research. By using secondary data. The data analysis used is qualitative data analysis. The research results found that legal protection is weak and injustice for patients if harm occurs. The provisions regarding telemedicine as regulated in Article 25 of Law Number 17 of 2023 concerning Health, are very far from adequate, in fact the direction is not clear, whether it is only a legal umbrella for telemedicine which has been regulated in Minister of Health Regulation Number 20 of 2019 concerning the Implementation of Telemedicine between Health Service Facilities, or will regulate the Implementation of Telemedicine not only between Health Service Facilities but also between Health Service Facilities or doctors and patients. The reconstruction of regulations in Article 25 of Law Number 17 of 2023 concerning Health, which generally regulates the practice of medicine via telemedicine, requires reconstruction of values and reconstruction of norms in order to provide justice for the practice of medicine via telemedicine between Health Service Facilities, as well as between Health Service Facilities or doctors and patient.

Keywords: protection; patient; telemedicine; justice;

DOI: 10.7176/JLPG/141-07

Publication date: April 30^th 2024