A separate "telemedicine licence" for a telemedicine platform does not exist in Georgia — and stating that non-existence openly is precisely the value of this page: it removes a memorized error already at the planning stage of a project. The Georgian system’s answer rests on three norms: telemedicine is defined in the Law on Medical Practice (Article 5); the service is delivered by a certificate-holding subject (Article 19); and state supervision is exercised by the ministry through the council (Articles 66 and 67). Foreign frameworks of regulatory authorization — in the style of the United States medicines agency or the European artificial-intelligence act — do not exist in Georgian law, and relying on them distorts a project’s expectations.
Telemedicine — A Professional’s Service
The definition in Article 5 describes telemedicine as the remote provision of medical services, carried out by a professional of the medical field by means of information and communication technologies, aimed at the exchange of information for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases, as well as at the continuous education of medical personnel, medical research and the evaluation of its results. This definition is decisive: telemedicine is not a technology product requiring a separate authorization — it is a form of a professional’s service. The entire subsequent architecture follows from this: what a platform "carries" is the subject’s service, and the criterion of lawfulness sits in the subject, not in the software. The subject itself is likewise defined in the law: a subject of independent medical practice is a person who carries out that activity in the manner established by Georgian legislation and answers for its results.
The Certificate and Supervision
Article 19 defines the state certificate as a state certificate confirming the right of independent medical practice and determining the medical specialty; it is mandatory only for independent medical practice. The certificate is a strict-accounting document — with a series, a number and other protection marks; its transfer to another person is prohibited. The law also regulates its annulment: the certificate becomes void by decision of the issuing organ — on the holder’s death or declaration of death by the court, on the holder’s written request, or on the discovery that a forged document was used as the basis of the decision to grant it. Article 90 links the remote consultation directly to that subject: only a subject has the right to receive a consultation using telemedicine, only a subject gives the recommendation, and only a subject answers for the results. The supervision block sits in Articles 66 and 67: state supervision is exercised by the ministry through the council, which secures the active participation of university clinics, physicians’ professional associations and other public organizations; the forms of supervision are quality control of medical services and control of the production of medical documentation. The system thus neither defines the platform as a separate regulated object nor provides a special permit for it.