# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第二条の二 (Article 2-2) - 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: 第二条の二 (Article 2-2) — address `art-2-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-2-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-2-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条の二 art-2-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-2-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-2-2 **第一項** この法律において、「オンライン診療」とは、医師又は歯科医師の使用に係る電子計算機（入出力装置を含む。以下この項において同じ。）と患者の使用に係る電子計算機とを電気通信回線で接続した電子情報処理組織を使用し、映像及び音声の送受信により、医師又は歯科医師及び遠隔の地にある患者が相手の状態を相互に認識しながら通話することが可能な方法による診療をいう。 art-2-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-2-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-2-2/par-1 The term "online medical care" as used in this Act means medical care provided by a method that uses an electronic data processing system connecting, by telecommunications line, a computer used by a physician or dentist (including input/output devices; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) and a computer used by a patient, and that enables the physician or dentist and the patient at a remote location to talk with each other while mutually recognizing each other's condition, through the transmission and reception of video and audio. machine translation, not official **第二項** この法律において、「オンライン診療受診施設」とは、当該施設の設置者が、業として、オンライン診療を行う医師又は歯科医師の勤務する病院、診療所、介護老人保健施設又は介護医療院に対して、その行うオンライン診療を患者が受ける場所として提供する施設をいう。 art-2-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-2-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-2-2/par-2 The term "facility for receiving online medical care" as used in this Act means a facility that the founder of the facility provides, as a business, to a hospital, clinic, long-term care health facility or integrated facility for medical and long-term care at which a physician or dentist who provides online medical care works, as a place where patients receive the online medical care that the physician or dentist provides. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-2-2/par-1: この項 → 医療法 第二条の二第一項 (Article 2-2, paragraph (1)), art-2-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-2-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-2-2/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第二条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-2-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-2-2/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-20261019T144711-001, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19