MEDICAL AUDIT ARRANGEMENTS TO REALIZE HUMANE LEGAL PROTECTION IN MEDICAL PRACTICE

Abstract

Medical audits are required in medical practice as a means of quality control and cost control so that the humanitarian principles and legal protections on which the basis and objectives of regulating medical practice in Indonesia can be achieved. Imperative rules are needed so that the conduct of a medical audit becomes a legal obligation. This is normative legal research with legal, conceptual, and comparative approaches. The study results concluded that the medical audit regulatory model in the Indonesian Medical Practice Law must be based on imperative legal norms and not contain vague (vage norms). This refers to reconstructing the norms of Article 49 and Article 79 of Law Number 29 of 2004 concerning Medical Practice by changing the word "may" to "mandatory," harmonization of regulations related to health service facilities in regulating medical audits by providing the concept of guidelines for the implementation of medical audits as a form of accountability and legal protection for doctors, health service facilities, and patients, adding sanctions norms for health care facilities that were not conducting medical audits, as well as strengthening the role of Professional Organizations in the implementation of medical audit functions.