Subjects 2008
e-Health Law 730721
- Credited Courses: Graduate Diploma in e-Business Law 531; Graduate Diploma in Health and Medical Law 343; Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies L08; Master of Health and Medical Law 507; Master of Laws (LLM) 502; Master of Laws (LLM) 502; Master of Laws by Coursework (LLM) 502
Objectives
A candidate who has successfully completed the subject should:
- Comprehend the impact of e-commerce models on health care delivery industries
- Appreciate the health law re-engineering necessary to maintain quality assurance and other regulatory overlays on health care delivery
- Comprehend the doctrinal detail behind certain e-health legal regimes, including quality assurance, privacy and interpersonal conduct
- Appreciate the interplay between law, technology and commerce.
Syllabus
Principal topics will include:
- The impact of e-commerce models on the delivery of health care and its regulation
- The e-health patient-provider interpersonal relationship, including physician responses to unsolicited patient email, digital IDs and digital credentialing, and consent to technologically mediated treatment
- The impact of e-health on the future of informed consent
- Public law regulatory systems and their application to e-health, specifically licensure and drug approval and distribution
- Required re-engineering of private law quality-assurance systems, including malpractice and products liability systems; the use of e-health practice guidelines, freedom of speech issues regarding advice sites, technological alternatives such as metadata based ratings systems, and risk management
- Privacy and security: The impact of the collection and dissemination of cohesive, integrated patient data; technology-based solutions and problems (from electronic patient records to smart cards), and an examination of diverse privacy and related systems such as the European Union directive and the United States HIPPA regulations.
