Realizing Right to Health in the Global Information Society

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Realizing Right to Health in the Global Information Society

Original language description

Health is considered a fundamental human right that is the basis for the exercise of other human rights and is essential for a dignified life. An effective system of health care provision is a crucial institution within a society, one which carries the same significance as the justice and democratic political system. Whilst a consideration of the right to health and the highest possible standard of health care services generally concerns decisions regarding the provision of public resources, the fundamental human right to life and health remains an integral consideration within legal doctrine and judicial practice in terms of assessments of liability for damage. The right to health does not only concern the provision of health care, in the European context usually by public insurance, but also the human right when seeking health services not to become a mere faceless object within a system administered by the state or by other authorities. The paper examines the issues of healthcare and its legal boundaries within the modern information society of knowledge. In healthcare, the issue of transitioning to an information society is closely linked with protection of personality of the patient in general and with safety of health care provision. On one hand, global information society in healthcare is a great advantage as it enables sharing and rationalizing of patient care and spreading of highly innovative technologies. On the other hand, entry of information technologies into this area is connected with particular risks to the general safety when delivering health care as well as to the individual privacy. The paper analyses examples based on the Czech strategy of digitization in healthcare services and addresses issues of possible intrusion to private sphere of patients as well as medical professional. The paper uses the methodology of economic approach and analysis of law comparing the figures of health expenditures of European Union countries on public health and the social costs of public health services. The paper emphasises possible legal and economic advantages of digitisation in health care, concluding with caveat that the exaggerated duty of digitisation may exclude groups which do not have a daily access to internet or are not able to use it properly.

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ECONOMICS BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES: BOOK OF CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND ABSTRACTS

ISBN

978-605-69684-0-2

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Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

80-86

Publisher name

Academia Press Center

Place of publication

Budapest

Event location

Budapest

Event date

Sep 4, 2019

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

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