외국인의사의 국내 원격의료 허가 제도 연구 - 제주특별법과 미국 원격의료의사면허 규정을 중심으로 -

Jeju Special Self-Governing Province (hereinafter referred to as “Jejudo”) has made many efforts in establishing foreign hospitals, selecting the medical tourism as one of the policies for economy revitalization and the development of tourism city. The most representative examples are attempts to establish the hospitals of PIM-MD (Philadelphia International Medicine Management & Development, LLC), the Shaner Hospital & Health Care Center (China Stem Cell Health Group) and Greenland Group (Chinese: 绿地集团). In these Cases, 「Special Act on The Establishment of Jeju Special Self-government Province and The Development of Free International City」 (hereinafter referred to as “Act”) was a big part. The Act provides some special cases concerning establishing foreign medical institutions, accepting the practice by license holders as a foreign medical doctor. Furthermore, the Act provides the special case concerning permitting the telemedicine of foreign doctors together. Therefore, by 2017, it is expected that foreign doctors will be able to work in foreign hospitals in the island for remote medical care and, thus, the legal procedures to allow them to nationally practice a telemedicine are needed to be closely reviewed. In this context, by focusing on similarities of permission for foreign doctors’ telemedicine in the country and mutual permission for interstates’ telemedicine in the United States, this article introduces the telemedicine system under the current Korean 「Medical Service Act」, reviews the statute of Act, municipal ordinance of Jejudo related with telemedicine system and foreign doctors’ telemedicine and examines the contents of the ‘Code of Alabama 1975 Title 34 Chapter 24 Article 10’ about ‘Interstate Medical Licensure Compact’ of FSMB. In lieu of conclusion, the implications is derived from them.