Health Care Organization and Legislation

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Supervisor:

Department of Cybernetics

Synopsis:

Aim o the course is to provide students with knowledge of health care structure and financing in the Czech Republic. Further there will be discussed problems of information systems in health care, technical and legal aspects linked with their application, and development, production and distribution of medical technology as well.

Requirements:

Conditions for approval: presence in seminars

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Health care system, insurance companies, hospitals, ways of financing

2. Electronic medical documentation

3. Medical and hospital information systems, functions, data flow

4. Used data type and structure, their processing and utilization

5. Data protection, technical solution, encoding, legal aspects, standards

6. Technical and legal aspects linked with development, production and distribution of medical devices and software.

7. Technical and clinical homologation

8. Quality control systems of medical devices production

9. Testing software for critical applications

10. Legal system in the Czech Republic, types of legal documents

11. Legal relations, legal acts

12. Autor law, patent law

13. Commercial laš, agreements, procedure of selection

14. Legal regulations in health care

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Basic structure of health care in the Czech Republic

2. Types of medical documentation

3. Structure of an information system

4. Example of a nedical information system, data structure

5. Excursion - practical presentation of an information system

6. Patients' database records, specificity of medical information system

7. Problems of data protection

8. Technical aspects of development of medical devices and software

9. Legal aspects of development of medical devices and software

10. Principles of quality control

11. Tools for software testing

12. Problems of legal relations and legal acts

13. Application of author laš, patent application

14. Examples of agreements, problems of procedure of selection

Study Objective:

Study materials:

There is no text-book covering the course completely, any book on modern operating systems can be used. The lecturer will hint resources to particular topics.

Note:

Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Biomedical Engineering- structured studies (compulsory course)