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It is of vital importance to clarify legal issues and ensure that teledermatology services are performed within the relevant health care legislation. Information processing in telemedicine and e-health must ensure confi dentiality, privacy and be secured by information security regimes.
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It should be said that this test has been discussed and also opposed to by many. One example is discussions about its relevance and importance under Australian law, see for example Kirby M (1995) Patients’ rights – why the Australian Courts have rejected Bolam. J Med Ethics 21(1):5–8.
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Nohr, L.E. (2012). Legal Issues. In: Soyer, H., Binder, M., Smith, A., Wurm, E. (eds) Telemedicine in Dermatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20801-0_18
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