Relentless technological progress is creating challenges both for the Austrian health system and the legal system: laws need to be updated, amended and rewritten. Law professor Karl Stöger conducts research to ensure that legal certainty keeps up with the rapid pace of digital transformation in mat-ters of health, energy and technology.
Increasing life expectancy presents many challenges for the healthcare sector. What is still affordable for the general population, and how does the publicly financed healthcare system care for older people? Can digitalisa-tion help? Karl Stöger is an expert in medical law who sees a strong trend in Austria towards a multi-class system in medicine. His research tries to offer solutions for providing a reasonable level of basic healthcare.
