Abstract

Telemedicine is usually discussed in the context of the ultramodern forms of providing medical services, a characteristic of which is that health services are provided at a distance. Telemedicine is a collective term, which remains in diverse relations with other notions, such as: teleconsultations, telehealth, TEC (technology-enabled care), m-Health, e-Health, telecare, etc. None of them has been so far defined in Polish law, although in practice those solutions are ever more frequently employed in the broadly conceived healthcare sector. In the article, an attempt has been made to define telemedicine and indicate what regulations are currently applicable to this type of services.