LEGAL REGIME OF HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Background: in the modern world, the quality of medical care depends largely on how effectively the accumulated medical information is used. One of the urgent tasks of information law is to ensure the integration of medical information systems into a single information space. Objective: analysis of the legal support of medical information systems at various levels through the category of their legal regime, development of recommenda tions for the development and improvement of legal norms. Methodology: structural and comparative analysis of the legal regimes of medical information systems. Results: the three-level structure of a single information space in the field of healthcare in the Russian Federation is revealed, the role of the legal support of information systems of all three levels in the development of informatization in the field of healthcare, the implementation of information relations and information support of processes in the field of medicine is shown. Conclusions: a set of legal norms establishing the legal regime of medical informa tion systems has passed the stage of initial formation. An important role in this institute should be played by general rules governing, in particular, the formation and use of medical information resources, functioning of medical information technologies.