Abstract:
Over the last decade, society has witnessed several changes and developments
due to the advent of the science of technology. Technologists across the world are
producing a number of new inventions and discoveries. Moreover, many key players and
investors keep their plans rolling especially in information and communication
technology. This new technology, in fact, created more viabilities and facilities for the
professionals and other stakeholders in doing their respective professions and services.
As a result of such kind of technology, otherwise known as cyber technology, the
economic activities of the countries really got a new transformation. The traders and the
financial corporations had established their identity in the e-markets and these activities
encourage e-commerce in society. Like traders and other professionals, doctors
and clinicians are also entered into cyberspace so as to enhance their profession by
way of e-health practice. Thus, e-health as a successor to telehealth started getting
good expansion and this chapter explains the significance of e-health and emerging legal
issues Currently, the Internet becomes an internal facet of our lives. the Internet has really
attributed the entire business process a sense of independence from time and location as
never experienced before1 Internet has also promoted the growth of service sectors,
manufacturing processes, and marketing of industrial goods and intellectual properties as well.
Furthermore, the distancing of the service providers from the consumers is now getting so
closed and the Internet easily helps the service to cross the borders and most specifically
the transporters.2 In fact, the service sectors entered into this new domain and efficiently
and scientifically achieving the goals are well remarkable Basically telehealth encounters
comfortably supplemented the traditional delivery of health care. Telehealth applications
were usually devised to link an urban-based physician with a remotely located patient.
Obviously, the goal of such applications was to bridge the geographic gap between the
physician and the patient and to increase access to health care. Such applications continue
to be an important part of health care delivery in the country and elsewhere. Some of these
traditional telehealth applications may actually utilize the Internet protocol. Most
importantly, however, they differ in kind from truly Internet-based applications which
operate on the premise that a key component in the delivery of health care is that, health
care is available online and that the patient has a significantly broader choice in health
care-taker and the delivery of health care. This new practice obviously creates a number of
problems for the consumers directly and indirectly and the existing legal framework
pertaining to addressing this kind of problem is not adequate enough. This research work
makes an attempt to deeply discuss the issues and suggests feasible solutions.
