Regulatory aspects of veterinary telemedicine Maria Fernanda Tóffoli Castilho, Roberto Santos da Silva, Renata Salgado Leme

Abstract

This article critically analyzes regulatory aspects of Veterinary Telemedicine, which emerged as a proposal to regulate the provision of services, offering patients remote diagnostic support, consultations, interpretation of exams, exchange of information between health institutions, discussion of clinical cases mainly in rare diseases, assistance to chronic and debilitated patients, and post-surgery monitoring and issuance of remote reports. The study analyzes Resolution No. 1,465/22 of the Federal Council of Veterinary Medicine in relation to the depth of discussions held within the scope of human telemedicine. The relevance of this study is in harmony with the concept of One Health, from the perspective of environmental health and human-animal interaction, confirming the importance of animal telemedicine in health in general, which is a fundamental right of a social nature. The main concepts involved in the telemedicine modality are addressed and then a parallel is drawn with human telemedicine. Next, the evolutionary aspect of social relations in the current information society is addressed, demonstrating that veterinary telemedicine is in harmony with other branches of science and society. Finally, the authors present their critical considerations on the real role of the Resolution, the Federal Council of Veterinary Medicine and the Public Authorities in the discipline of promoting this type of service provision. The research is exploratory in nature, based on a legislative and doctrinal bibliographic survey.