Medical self-government appeals to doctors: issuing a prescription to a patient using a teleprescriber should meet the standards of a health service

The appeal, issued last Friday, reads that teleportation is a health care service - only that it is provided at a distance using information and communication systems or systems.

"In view of this, the issuance of a prescription to a teleprescribing patient should meet all the standards required of a health care service, and the prescribing physician is subject to the rules set forth in the Code of Medical Ethics," the NRL reminds.

In the Bureau's view, the merits of telehealth services should not be denied. It is an internationally recognized way of providing patient care and can be treated as one of the standards of medical procedure, but on the condition that medical action is taken with due diligence. An element of medical advice is, depending on the patient's condition, also the issuance of a prescription.

"It is the doctor who should decide whether a teleportation is even possible in the established facts, while the issuance of a prescription following a teleportation test is determined by medical considerations and not solely by expectations supported by the payment of a fee for the service," the appeal reads.

In addition, the Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council recalls that the Medical Ethics Committee of the Supreme Medical Council already criticized in February the services offered on the Internet for paid prescriptions and exemptions in situations where a short questionnaire that does not meet the criterion of a subject examination and suggests symptoms to the patient is sufficient to obtain a prescription.