ECONOMIC AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR ENSURING THE RIGHT TO HEALTHCARE IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: PUBLIC POLICY AND THE SECURITY DIMENSION

Abstract

This article examines public policies aimed at ensuring economic security and the realisation of healthcare rights in the context of digital societal transformation. It also considers the impact of digitalisation processes on healthcare systems and contemporary legal and economic mechanisms for ensuring the effective realisation of the right to medical care. The purpose of the study is to develop a comprehensive approach to defining the content of public policy on the economic security of the healthcare sector, as well as the specific features of its implementation in a digitally transformed healthcare system. The subject of the research is the social relations that arise when public policy is formulated and implemented in the field of economic healthcare security, particularly with regard to financing medical guarantees, digitalising medical services, protecting medical data, cybersecurity and adapting national legislation to European standards. Metodology. The research employed general and specific methods of scientific enquiry, including dialectical, formal legal, comparative legal and systemic-structural methods. This enabled the interrelationship between digitalisation, the economic security of the healthcare system and legal mechanisms for ensuring the right to healthcare to be examined. Results. It has been established that digitalisation of the healthcare system creates a new model for realising the right to healthcare. Within this model, information technologies serve as instruments for improving the efficiency of medical services, as well as mechanisms for optimising public expenditure and strengthening the financial sustainability of the healthcare system. The financial sustainability of the healthcare system, stability of public funding, protection of personal medical data and cybersecurity of digital infrastructure have been demonstrated to be the fundamental components of contemporary public policy in the healthcare sector. Particular attention is given to digital healthcare infrastructure as a critical element of the public system. Its functioning directly affects economic stability, the continuity of healthcare services, the implementation of social guarantees and the realisation of the right to healthcare. The article proposes the following: a) recognising the economic security of the healthcare system as an independent component of public policy aimed at ensuring the right to healthcare; b) improving national legislation in the field of digital healthcare by developing specialised cybersecurity standards and medical data protection requirements; c) strengthening the mechanisms that ensure the financial sustainability of the healthcare system, while also harmonising Ukrainian legislation with European standards of digital governance in the healthcare sector.