Telemedicine is a new aspect of medicine that can be useful for different caste of human society in diverse fields. The primary goal of this technology is to support patients who may not access to medical special facilities quickly and in due time. This technology domain involves faraway consultation and medical visits to variety of surgeries through electronic systems.
Telemedicine like other technologies can be both useful and harmful for human being. As this technology is a combination of medicine and IT, it can also integrate medicine crime and IT and relegate medical crimes impression to internet.
Telemedicine risks that its users may encounter are people curiosity, hackers and terrorism groups misuse. This group through different means like access and revelation of people health, forgery of special medicine title, sabotage in electronic systems, virus transfer to internet networks and unofficial listening of communications pursue their illegal mental, economical or political intentions.
This survey is firstly discuss potential telemedicine crimes and then through Iran penal regulations (like Islamic punishment law, electronic business law, and computer crimes law) will investigate Iran penal response to these crimes.
The result have shown that although in may cases new crimes are new frames of old crimes with same nature but it seems to protect patients rights, new regulation and laws according to this crimes which are occur in cyber space should be acted.
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