Regulatory and legal problems of security of territorially distributed information systems in ophthalmology

Abstract

Purpose. To consider, characterize and analyze the regulatory framework of the Russian Federation, which determines the use of information technologies in ophthalmology, without which it is now impossible to provide high-tech medical care. Material and methods. The subject of this study is the legislation of the Russian Federation devoted both directly to the health care system in our country and to the requirements for ensuring information security. In accordance with the specifics of the subject under study, general scientific research methods were necessarily used in this work: analysis and synthesis, deduction and induction. Results. The legal system of the Russian Federation is not so specialized in the use of information technologies in medicine that in ophthalmology there would be some special regulatory framework, different from other types of medical activities. The objective basis of this universality is that it is practically the same technological base everywhere in medicine. Conclusion. The presence of all the necessary conditions determining belonging to the status of a subject of critical information infrastructure creates sufficient grounds for the applying of requirements related to the regulation of medical activities based on the Federal law «On the Security of Critical Information Infrastructure of the Russian Federation». Keywords: medicine, information technology, information security, critical information structure of the Russian Federation