health law karolina hyzova martina kalapá č ová
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HEALTH LAW
Karolina Hyzova Martina Kalapáčová
The Health Law
is the only branch of law...
...that literally affects our lives.
Health Industry +
Pharmaceutical Industry+
Biotechnology
Create a huge colos ...
...that has to be regulated!
But which law affects the health care
industry?
Laws, Rules and Regulations
Law on Confidentiality
NegligenceTorts
Criminal Law
Who is affected by these rules?
* Health Care
* Patients
* Providers
* Payors
* Vendors
* Delivery of health care
systems
* US!
What we are talking about:
(AN EXAMPLE)
Abortion Law:
Vary widely by country
Supporters and opponents of
legal abortion...
...believe their position
addresses a fundamental human right.
Beginning and ending of
human life:
When does and embryo become a
human?
Till when is it possible for a
woman to have an abortion?
Under what conditions is a
doctor allowed not to provide me with health care if this is
my will?
When and how does life end?
...and what consequences does
death take with itself?
Medical Record:
...a systematic documenatation of a
patient´s medical history and care.
AND an intensely personal document!
There are many ethnical and legal
issues surrounding
medical records.
Such as:
The degree of a third-party access
and appropriate storage and
disposal.
Traditionally, medical records
have been written on paper
and kept in folders.
Nowadays electronic
medical records have been
introduced.
This has not only increased
accessibility of files.
BUT
the outsourcing and storage has the potential to
violate patient-doctor
confidentiality by...
...possibly allowing
unaccountable persons access
to patient data.
Informed Consent:
THE fundamental term in a patient-doctor relation.
In case, where an individual is
provided insufficient information...
...to form a reasonable decision,
serious ethnical issues arise!
Medical Research:
The increased longevity of humans
over the past century
can be significantly attributed to
advances resulting from medical
research.
Reproductive Rights:
Issues related to reproductive rights
are some of the most vigorously contested rights'
issues worldwide,
regardless of the population's
socioeconomic level, religion or culture.
Reproductive Rights may include:
1. the right to legal and safe abortion
2. the right to birth control
3. the right to access reproductive
healthcare
4. the right to make choises ...
...free from coercion, discrimination and
violence.
BUT
The reproductive technology itself opens a wide field
for discussion.
*Beginning with Artificial
Insemination...
*Embryo Transfer
* Fertility Medication
* Hormone Treatment
* In Vitro Fertilisation
* the preservation of sperm, oocytes and
embryos
* the Preimplantation
Genetic Diagnosis (PGD)
and
* surrogacy
to finally
maybe the most interessting
and threatening topic of all:
*Cloning
These are problematic
questions of ethics,
morale,
biology
and
LAW all together.
And still developing!!!