# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第十四条の四 (Article 14-4) - Law: 医療法 (Medical Care Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二百五号 - English title "Medical Care Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第十四条の四 (Article 14-4) — address `art-14-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-14-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-14-4 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十四条の四 art-14-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-14-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-14-4 **第一項** オンライン診療を行う医師又は歯科医師が勤務する病院又は診療所（次条において「オンライン診療実施病院等」という。）の管理者は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、当該医師又は歯科医師が行うオンライン診療を前条第一項の基準に適合させるために必要な措置を講じなければならない。 art-14-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-14-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-14-4/par-1 The administrator of a hospital or clinic at which a physician or dentist who provides online medical care works (referred to as a "hospital, etc. providing online medical care" in the following Article) must take the measures necessary to bring the online medical care provided by that physician or dentist into conformity with the standards set forth in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-14-4/par-1: 次条 → 医療法 第十四条の五 (Article 14-5), art-14-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-14-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-14-5 - art-14-4/par-1: 前条第一項 → 医療法 第十四条の三第一項 (Article 14-3, paragraph (1)), art-14-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-14-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-14-3/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百五条第一項（医療法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-105/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-105/par-1 - 介護保険法 第百十四条の八第一項（医療法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-114-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-114-8/par-1 - 医療法 第十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-17/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 医療法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000205/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Care Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-care-act-20261019T151250-001, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19