VECTORS OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNIFIED MEDICAL INFORMATION SPACE.

AIM: The aim of the article is to analyze the current state of functioning of the medical information space of Ukraine in order to formulate scientifically sound proposals aimed at improving the implementation of medical reform. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study is based on the analysis of literary sources of Ukrainian and international scientists, Ukrainian and foreign legislation and judicial practice. The article uses general theoretical and special methods of scientific cognition: theoretical analysis, systemic and structural, analysis and synthesis, sociological and statistical, logical and semantic, comparative and legal, method of ascent from the abstract to the concrete, forecasting and generalization. RESULTS: One of the key categories of the reform of the Ukrainian national medical sphere - the unified medical information space and its constituent elements - is studied. The electronic health care system, which stores medical data about patients in a single place and ensures their exchange between medical institutions, is analyzed. Emphasis is placed on the possibilities of using telemedicine and artificial intelligence, which play a key role in the development of the unified medical information space in accordance with global trends. The importance of legislative provision of efficiency and safety of the unified medical space is emphasized. It is about regulating the protection of personal data, establishing technical standards and requirements for medical information systems, ensuring confidentiality, integrity and data availability of the unified medical information space. CONCLUSIONS: Conclusions are drawn about the importance of proper functioning of each of the elements of the unified medical information space, both individually and in conjunction with each other. The authors' vision of improving the existing system of the unified medical information space is presented.

LEGAL NATURE OF MEDICAL SERVICES: SPECIFICS OF UKRAINIAN DOCTRINE.

The purpose of the article is to analyze the specifics of the Ukrainian doctrine regarding the legal nature of medical services and areas for improving legal regulation. The research is based on the analysis and comparison of Ukrainian and EU law, content analysis of the terminology of legal sources, legal positions of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, scientific researches, description and generalization of existing achievements and issues in the field of legal regulation of healthcare services. Research methods are monographic analysis, systematic and structural analysis, comparative and legal analysis, linguistic analysis, content analysis, method of generalization. The need to unify the special categorical apparatus of Ukrainian legislation has been substantiated. It has been proved that due to the improvement of domestic legislation through the implementation of the norms of European private law, the doctrine and practice of legal regulation will correspond to the nature of the regulated relations. The content, structure, and specific features of legal relations for the provision of medical services in the Ukrainian legal system have been determined. The authors have made a conclusion about the private legal nature of medical services in the domestic legal doctrine. Recommendations have been made for the legislation of Ukraine, which regulates civil relations for the provision of medical services, regarding the introduction of special norms related to the personal non-property rights of the relations' participants, contractual representation of a patient, legal terms for the provision of medical services without obtaining the consent.