Indonesia is a country that until now has not have a single law laws specifically regulating the protection of personal data. Lately there have been many cases in the community regarding the misuse of personal data. Especially with the increasingly easy public access to the internet so that the misuse of personal data through electronic media will spread quickly. In the field of health services, the patient's personal data cannot be separated from the possibility of abuse. It would be even more dangerous if the personal data is a trace of the patient's medical record which is indeed highly confidential. The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in health services aims to improve access, efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of medical processes that involve medical service organizations in hospitals, clinics, health centers, medical practitioners both doctors and therapists, laboratories, pharmacies, insurance also involving patients as consumers. However, in the process of service using the E-health program, it will collect a number of consumer personal data which is sensitive personal data and lead to new legal issues, namely the extent to which the health service provider can protect patient personal data can be accessed, disseminated more easily through the progress of ICT. So far, the existing regulations have not provided maximum protection for patient personal data because the arrangements are still sectoral and are scattered in several laws and regulations.

The development of technology in the understanding of the digital information society is the extent to which the definition of the information society gets the right place and portion in the entire context of community development. Basically the information society is inherent in every stage of existing society. Thus, in accordance with the process of digital media capitalization, the process of digitizing society involves three main processes of the political economy of modern media, namely commodification, spatialization and structuration. Advances in technology and communication have an impact on the creation of a faster flow  of information so that people who, in this case as the subject of the times, are also affected. The global community, including Indonesia, is now increasingly active in applying the development of communication and information technology. information.   Perkembangan teknologi dalam pemahaman masyarakat informasi digital adalah sejauh mana definisi masyarakat informasi mendapat tempat dan porsi yang tepat dalam seluruh konteks perkembangan masyarakat. Pada dasarnya masyarakat informasi melekat dalam setiap tahapan masyarakat yang ada. Dengan demikian, seturut dengan proses kapitalisasi media digital, maka proses digitalisasi masyarakat melibatkan tiga proses utama ekonomi politik media modern, yaitu komodifikasi, spasialisasi dan strukturasi. Kemajuan teknologi dan komunikasi berdampak pada terciptanya arus informasi yang lebih deras sehingga masyarakat yang dalam hal ini sebagai subjek dari perkembangan zaman pun turut terpengaruh.Masyarakat global termasuk Indonesia kini semakin aktif dalam mengaplikasikan perkembangan teknologi komunikasi dan informasi tersebut hingga saat ini pun masuk dalam era masyarakat informasi.