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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!!!