Liability for damages of a producer of devices that use ICT in the diagnostic and treatment process towards an injured patient : selected practical aspects

The dynamic development of new technologies and treatment methods often goes hand in hand with increased risk of causing injury to the patient. Personal injury in such cases is often not related to the medical staff violating principles of medical knowledge, but results from defects of medical equipment, of medical devices or of medicines. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how such injury may be compensated when the medical staff act in compliance with medical knowledge and the injury suffered by the patient resulted from defectiveness of medical equipment that uses ICT.