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The Czech National eHealth Center (NTMC) was established as a coordination and education center within a new rapidly developing branch of medicine - eHealth. Currently, there are numerous activities in the Czech Republic in the field of eHealth, nevertheless majority of them deal only with fragments. Major goal of the NTMC is to unify these activities under a single organizational structure.

Among other goals they are predominantly:

  • an exploration of new directions and procedures in the field
  • verification and implementation of innovations and principles in the practice
  • development and use of modern methods within undergraduate and postgraduate education.

NTMC, is the first center in the Czech Republic that comprehensively focused on the  implementation of clinical research activities in the field of telemedicine.

Co-founders of the NTMC are the Olomouc University Hospital (FNOL), Department of Internal Medicine I - Cardiology at University Hospital Olomouc and the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of Palacký University in Olomouc. The Czech National eHealth Center is part of the infrastructure of the Olomouc University Hospital, where it is managed as a therapeutic center. Additional cooperating partners are entities from university institutes, medical facilities, technology companies and other relevant entities.

  • Smart and Healthy Ageing through People Engaging in Supportive Systems (SHAPES)
  • Development of an integrated concept for the deployment of innovative technologies and services allowing independent living of frail elderly (niCE-life)
  • Implementation of personalised risk prediction and prevention of sudden cardiac death after myocardial infarction (PROFID)
  • Joint Action on the implementation of digitally enabled integrated person-centred care (JADECARE)
  • Connected for Health: Well-Being and Healthcare Solutions in Open Access FTTH Networks
  • Scaling integrated care in context (SCIROCCO)
  • UNIversal solutions in TElemedicine Deployment for European HEALTH care (United4Health)
  • Research of the operational and economic model of providing telemedicine services
  • Support and development of international scientific cooperation of NTMC
  • Analysis of the usability of European examples of Good Practice in the field of active and healthy aging
  • Partnership and cooperation in the field of eHealth
  • Interactive cardiology - modern teaching methods
  • Implementation of the latest eHealth methods in the teaching of medical disciplines

The ambition of NTMC is to become a top Czech research institute in terms of its activities‘ scope. NTMC will cooperate with other professional educational, research and care providing facilities in the Czech Republic and abroad to support its endeavour. Currently, research is carried out mainly in the fields of cardiology and diabetology, the ambition of the NTMC is to expand to other areas of medicine (oncology, pneumology, neurology, teleophthalmology etc.) as well, where the application of telemedicine technologies is advantageous and has the potential for further development.

The goal of NTMC is besides providing routine telemedicine care, to carry out its own research, development and scientific verification of new telemedicine procedures. To achieve that NTMC will be obtaining top know-how from foreign entities and experts, providing its dissemination to other professional workplaces throughout the Czech Republic, training new experts in telemedicine together with the use of modern methods in teaching medical and non-medical disciplines. Since 2014, telemedicine has also become one of the study subjects of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the Palacký University in Olomouc. Owing to the established center, students and academic staff can carry out study stays, professional internships and internships at foreign institutions and companies dealing with eHealth issues.Such facilities include, for example, hospitals, technology and development companies or research centers.

One of the biggest advantages of telemedicine treatment is the emphasis on preventive treatment, increasing patient comfort, saving doctors' time and overall effectiveness of providing care using information and communication technologies. Modern technologies can also increase patient safety or treatment success, as well as improve communication between healthcare professionals and patients. It will be possible to offer patients the state-of-the-art and most effective medical procedures in the field of prevention and treatment of a wide range of diseases and health issues. The goal of the NTMC is also to streamline the provision of health care to the elderly population not only through technology but also through governmental measures that will lead to the dissemination of good practices from abroad and to the implementation of integrated care in the Czech health care system. Based on the above mentioned, the goal of NTMC is to be a top research institute in the field of telemedicine which is defined against the lifestyle and commercial applications of telemedicine products and services.

Tereza Norbertova
Activities coordinator of the Czech National eHealth Center
University Hospital Olomouc
I.P. Pavlova 6
779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic