Healthcare and Medicine

Exploring international experience in the following areas

• Health care system and organization of health service delivery for the population
• Health care funding; systems of health insurance: structure and main functions of its actors
• Models of health care reimbursement including a model based on Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG)
• Management of health care institutions; Quality Management Systems in health care
• Medical rehabilitation: its organization and sources of founding
• Operation of rehabilitation centres and their services
• Organization and funding of outpatient long-term care for the elderly and disabled
• ICT in health care; common information space for medical institutions
• Cluster organization of scientific and applied R&D

Continuing professional education for doctors and nurses and job shadowing at European hospitals in the following focus areas:

• Standardization of methods of diagnostics, treatment and rehabilitation
• Innovative medical technologies and equipment; interaction of research institutions with hospitals in R&D and introduction of new medical technologies and devices
• Individually tailored programs depending on area of expertise (e.g. endoscopic surgery, stereotactic surgery, aesthetic medicine and plastic surgery; implantology, neurological rehabilitation etc.)
• Family physicians and their interaction with hospitals and other health service providers