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Health Care in New Technologies Environment

The essential characteristic of considerable and rapid development of medical sciences and improvement of quality of provided medical services and health care is an increase and introduction of a large number of the most varied, frequently extraordinary complex and sophisticated, electromedical devices and equipment in everyday medical practice, and later on, introduction of ICT, firstly in administrative - financial area, and soon after, in medical practice as well, with an extremely high-speed and propulsive growth. However, the reorganisation of public health care and health protection assumes the existence and introduction into medical instititutions of qualified persons, experts of new profiles (which is in the world known and acknowledged practice) - biomedical and clinical engineers, medical physicists, medical informaticians, etc. who in close co-operation with physicians, render adequate services (e.g. purchase of equipment, education on optimum use of equipment, care about safety of patients, users and environmnet, maintenance of equipment, care for computer programs, protocols and networking etc.), by application of "specific technical" knowledge acquired by special education. The question how to educate such personnel is discussed.

health care, high technologies, electromedical equipment, ICT, interdisciplinary knowledge, medical education

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