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Legal aspects of telemedicine
Kolačkovská, Lucie ; Šolc, Martin (advisor) ; Janoušková, Anežka (referee)
1 Legal aspects of telemedicine Abstract This thesis deals with the legal aspects of telemedicine or the provision of health services at a distance using information and communication technologies. Telemedicine is a new, rapidly developing phenomenon, however, its use in practice already exceeds the level of its legislative anchoring. The paper asks whether the legal regulation of telemedicine is adequate to protect the patient's subjective rights and, if not, to identify which legislative changes are required to achieve this level. The thesis defines the concept of telemedicine and its individual categories, which it illustrates with several case examples from practice. Furthermore, it examines the legal regulation of telemedicine in the context of the health care contract, where it analyses in detail the proposed amendment to the Health Services Act, which, if adopted, will anchor telemedicine in Czech legislation. It also analyses the key issues arising from the legislative anchoring of telemedicine, namely the authorisation to provide telemedicine services and the standard of care. It also examines a central aspect of the legal regulation of telemedicine, which is the protection of personal data routinely shared in the course of providing telemedicine services. The thesis also adresses selected foreign...
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Civil law aspects of health protection
Vopěnková, Zdenka ; Švestka, Jiří (advisor) ; Salač, Josef (referee)
The subject of this paper is the civil law aspects of health protection. The aim of the thesis is to analyse the relevant law concerning the topic and compare it to regulation suggested in the new civil code. Considering the breadth of the topic, the thesis does not deal with all aspects of this issue but just focuses on some of the most debatable questions. Not only the current law and related literature is considered, but a particular emphasis is also put on related case law. In some parts the paper also takes into consideration the fundamental masterpiece of European tort doctrine - Principles of European Tort Law (PETL). The thesis is composed of five chapters, each of them dealing with different aspects of the topic. Chapter One provides an outline of relevant Czech and international law. Chapter Two analyses the concept of right to health protection as a part of personality protection and deals with its object, content and subjects. Chapter three is devoted to the unlawful infringement of the right to health protection and its consequences. Chapter Four focuses on civil law responsibility for unlawful infringement and on the circumstances which are necessary for the responsibility for injury to health to arise and also on the subjects to this responsibilty. This chapter also includes problems...
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Civil law aspects of health protection
Vopěnková, Zdenka ; Švestka, Jiří (advisor) ; Salač, Josef (referee)
The subject of this paper is the civil law aspects of health protection. The aim of the thesis is to analyse the relevant law concerning the topic and compare it to regulation suggested in the new civil code. Considering the breadth of the topic, the thesis does not deal with all aspects of this issue but just focuses on some of the most debatable questions. Not only the current law and related literature is considered, but a particular emphasis is also put on related case law. In some parts the paper also takes into consideration the fundamental masterpiece of European tort doctrine - Principles of European Tort Law (PETL). The thesis is composed of five chapters, each of them dealing with different aspects of the topic. Chapter One provides an outline of relevant Czech and international law. Chapter Two analyses the concept of right to health protection as a part of personality protection and deals with its object, content and subjects. Chapter three is devoted to the unlawful infringement of the right to health protection and its consequences. Chapter Four focuses on civil law responsibility for unlawful infringement and on the circumstances which are necessary for the responsibility for injury to health to arise and also on the subjects to this responsibilty. This chapter also includes problems...
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