Organization of the Health Care System and Legislation

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Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Language
A6M33OZL	Z,ZK	4	2P+2S	Czech

During a review of study plans, the course X33OZL can be substituted for the course A6M33OZL.

It is not possible to register for the course A6M33OZL if the student is concurrently registered for or has already completed the course X33OZL (mutually exclusive courses).

The requirement for course A6M33OZL can be fulfilled by substitution with the course X33OZL.

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Department of Cybernetics

Synopsis:

The course explains the problems of health care structure, its financial and legal context in Czech Republic and European Union. Further there are discussed legal aspects of development, implementation and utilization of information systems and development, production and distribution of medical technology.

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Syllabus of lectures:

1. World codexes, Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, WHO.

2. Health care system, hospitals, models of financing, legal relations.

3. Protection of public health, prevention of nosocomial infections, epidemiology, system of health care statistics.

4. Legal system in the Czech Republic, inclusion in European context, types of legal documents, legal acts.

5. Basic legal regulations.

6. Commercial code, contracts, tenders.

7. Authors´Act, Patent Law.

8. Legal aspects of development, production and distribution of medical technology.

9. Health care documentation, patient data protection, patient informed consent.

10. Legal problems of public health insurance.

11. Case studies I.

12. Case studies II.

13. Conclusions for practice.

14. Reserve.

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Study materials:

[1] http://www.who.int/en/

[2] The European Health Report 2009. Health and health systems. WHO. http://www.euro.who.int/Document/E93103.pdf

[3] International Health Regulations: http://www.who.int/ihr/en/

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Further information:

http://cw.felk.cvut.cz/doku.php/courses/a6m33ozl/start

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