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17 Va. J.L. & Tech. 1 (2012-2013)

handle is hein.journals/vjolt17 and id is 1 raw text is: VIRGINIA JOURNAL OF LAW & TECHNOLOGY SPRING 2012 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA VOL. 17, No. 01 Enabling Globalization of Health Care in the Information Technology Era: Telemedicine and the Medical World Wide Web GIL SIEGAL ABSTRACT Information technology (IT) and accompanying medical breakthroughs may facilitate promising global opportunities for better and more accessible health care. This possibility derives from the border-free characteristic of Internet-based communication, technical advances, and a prominent trend of outsourcing expensive medical services to less expensive, international providers through what might be collectively called electronic medical tourism. However, full realization of the potential benefits of these trends remains contingent upon harmonizing cross-national requirements and standards. Current legal regimes exert a chilling effect on the development of digital medicine as a global health facilitator for both developing and developed countries. To expedite IT dissemination as a vehicle for global health promotion, a concerted action aimed at establishing an international consortium on Internet-based Medical-WWW is presented, and some of its salient features are discussed along with their legal ramifications. Cyberspace has become a most important territory, and the pace of change requires effective adaptation of health-care law. D 2012 Virginia Journal of Law & Technology Association, at http://www.vjolt.net. n M.D.; LL.B.; S.J.D.; Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law; Chair, Center for Health Law and Bioethics, Kiryat Ono College, Israel; Senior researcher, Gertner Institute for Health Policy and Epidemiology, Israel: gs6x@virginia.edu; gil.siegal@ono.ac.il. I wish to thank Richard Bonnie, Jacob Nussim, Karen Rheuban, Mark Rothstein, and Neomi Siegal for helpful comments on this Article and to the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School for inviting me to present this paper at their annual conference on Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Challenges, May 2011. Special thanks to Journal Executive Editor Chase Cooper, Articles Editor Valerie Barker, and their editorial team, as well as my research assistants Toni Napolitani and Leslie Schmidt. VIRGINIAJOURNAL OF LAW & TECHNOLOGY Vol. 17 No. 1

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