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 institutions 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 environment, maintenance of equipment, care for computer programs, protocols and networking etc.), by application of "specific technical" knowledge acquired by special education. As it is a question of extremely interdisciplinary knowledge, it is logical that the question arises how to educate such a personnel? At the present (this issue must be harmonised on the level of the EU as well) as an optimum appears integral postgraduate specialist's studies, and life-long specialisation, depending on specific requirements of particular work posts. In other words, life-long learning is suggested itself as "must be" with reference to extraordinary propulsiveness of the area.