The article is devoted to the study and processing of methods for creating electronic document management systems of medical organizations, increasing the level of protection of documents and information stored and processed in this system. For this purpose, International and local experience in the field of legislation on the protection of documents containing personal and medical information of patients in medical organizations was commented in the article, the issue of creating a distributed structured electronic document management system for medical organizations was considered, various protection methods were used to ensure the confidentiality of personal and medical information of patients, it was proposed to use the authentication procedure and secure encryption methods.