OBJECTIVES: In the paper we described the partial achievements reached by the EuroMISE Center in research and higher education, supporting better healthcare in future information society. METHODS: Through the research cooperation, the EuroMISE Centre suggests publicly available tools and methods that allow the application of new technologies for various healthcare organizations and citizens, with a special focus on the national environment of the Czech Republic. It provides a platform for a greater level of research cooperation with the usage of the most up-to-date information and communication technologies and a wide spectrum of clinical and genetic data and knowledge. RESULTS: Results of research and higher education of the EuroMISE Centre in the field of Biomedical Informatics are described in outputs of national and European projects. Further results have been published and/or presented at national and international meetings and incorporated in education and healthcare practice. CONCLUSIONS: The long-term effect of postgraduate doctoral education in the field of biomedical informatics consists in the rapid increase of scientists that are needed in the Czech Republic to reach the goals of information society in health care. The multidisciplinary research at the EuroMISE Center moves towards direct usage in the informational support of diagnostics and therapy, mining of the medical databases, and in the customization of healthcare based on the clinical and genetic profile of a patient.

• MeSH
• biomedicínský výzkum * MeSH
• chorobopisy - počítačové systémy MeSH
• kontinuální vzdělávání MeSH
• lékařská informatika výchova   MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Česká republika MeSH
• Evropa MeSH

The emergence of the information technologies has seriously changed the healthcare system. Thus, health professionals need to be well-educated in order to respond successfully to the challenges of their job. In higher education programs in, biomedical informatics and health informatics are continuously developing. At this study more than 500 universities and colleges in Europe were checked in order to find related educational programs at all academic levels. The outcome of the research includes 316 study programs at undergraduate and postgraduate level including a variety of specializations. The majority of these programs are taking place in Czech Republic, Ireland and Austria. In contrast, countries such as Croatia and Cyprus have very low number of study programs in these fields.

• Klíčová slova
• EFMI, Health professionals, educational programs, health informatics,
• MeSH
• kurikulum * MeSH
• lékařská informatika výchova   MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Česká republika MeSH
• Chorvatsko MeSH
• Irsko MeSH
• Kypr MeSH
• Rakousko MeSH

In the paper we describe the new Czech program in Biomedical informatics with doctor degree. The agreement on cooperation of Charles University in Prague and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in postgraduate doctoral studies was signed on April 23rd, 1997. The main goal of this agreement has been cooperation in development and running of joint education and training of young researchers. Nowadays there are 19 boards of scientific disciplines in postgraduate doctoral studies in biomedicine, one of them the scientific board on Biomedical informatics established in 2001. The involvement of university teachers and researchers from the EuroMISE center-Cardio in the board of biomedical informatics discipline in the postgraduate doctoral studies of biomedicine and first activities of the board are described.

• MeSH
• lékařská informatika výchova   MeSH
• studium vysokoškolské * MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Česká republika MeSH

The long-term effect of education in the field of biomedical informatics and eHealth on efficiency and quality of healthcare is discussed. Selected educational methods and tools are presented and their applications are shown.

• MeSH
• internet MeSH
• kurikulum MeSH
• kvalita zdravotní péče * MeSH
• lékařská informatika výchova   MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• přístup k informacím MeSH
• šíření informací MeSH
• stupeň vzdělání MeSH
• učení * MeSH
• vyučovací postupy * MeSH
• vzdělávací modely MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH

• MeSH
• interpretace statistických dat * MeSH
• kongresy jako téma * MeSH
• lékařská informatika výchova   MeSH
• Publikační typ
• úvodníky MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Česká republika MeSH

Scholars from the health and medical sciences have recently proposed the term social informatics (SI) as a new scientific subfield of health informatics (HI). However, SI is not a new academic concept; in fact, it has been continuously used in the social sciences and informatics since the 1970s. Although the dominant understanding of SI was established in the 1990s in the United States, a rich international perspective on SI has existed since the 1970s in other regions of the world. When that perspective is considered, the fields of understanding can be structured into 7 SI schools of thought. Against that conceptual background, this paper contributes to the discussion on the relationship between SI and HI, outlining possible perspectives of SI that are associated with health, medical, and clinical aspects. This paper argues against the multiplication and inconsistent appearance of the term SI when newly used in health and medical sciences. A more explicit name for the area that uses health and social data to advance individual and population health might be helpful to overcome this issue; giving an identity to this new field would help it to be understood more precisely and bring greater separation. This labeling could be fruitful for further segmentation of HI, which is rapidly expanding.

• Klíčová slova
• biomedical informatics, clinical informatics, conceptual view, international perspective, medical informatics,
• MeSH
• internacionalita MeSH
• lékařská informatika * MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Spojené státy americké MeSH

The poster describes doctoral degree studies in biomedical informatics at Charles University in Prague. Particularly important in educational programmes and knowledge dissemination is the role of Internet. Therefore we also describe special activities concerned with the specific research at the First Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Prague. These are selected tools for blended learning tools, ExaMe system and the role of the European Journal for Biomedical Informatics (EJBI), an official multilingual journal of EFMI, for Ph.D. student's cooperation and understanding the multidisciplinary field of biomedical informatics [1].

• MeSH
• lékařská informatika výchova   MeSH
• počítačem řízená výuka metody   MeSH
• software * MeSH
• studium vysokoškolské metody   organizace a řízení   MeSH
• vyučování organizace a řízení   MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Česká republika MeSH

EuroMISE Center was established in the year 1994bas the joint workplace of Charles University in Prague and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic with the support of the European project focused on higher education in methodology field of healthcare. Nowadays, the EuroMISE Center is working as the joint workplace of five organizations. We describe in more details history and nowadays activities of the EuroMISE Center in the field of research, higher education and e3 Health applications.

• MeSH
• kurikulum MeSH
• lékařská informatika výchova   metody   MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• studium vysokoškolské organizace a řízení   MeSH
• výzkum organizace a řízení   MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Česká republika MeSH

1. CURRICULUM DESCRIPTION. Twenty years ago, our faculty organized several lessons in a physiology course to inform students about computers. Recently, new courses in informatics were established. In their first year, students take a compulsory course (15 hours=h) of basic computer science (computers databases, networking, and basic non-medical computer software). A special elective course in medical informatics (30h) can be taken in the 4th year (about 20% of students pass tis course). This course includes the following lessons: computers in medicine (2h), scientific information (4h), classification in medicine (2h- including ICD, SNOMED etc.), computer support of clinical decision (2h-calculation principles with demonstration), artificial intelligence (2h), statistical software (2h), hospital information systems (2h), software for practitioners (2h), biosignal and image analysis (4th), computers in pharmacology (2h), computer simulation (2h), support of metabolic care (2h-consultations, risk calculations), and laboratory information systems (2h). The same course, though slightly differences, is used for paramedical students (occupational therapy, health education, and nursing). Medical technology was established in a three year curriculum courses in the 1st year include common courses in electronic devices (60 h), computers and programming (120 h), biophysics (90 h), biomechanics (30 h), and different medical courses (500 h). For the 2nd and 3rd year, 75% of the courses (700 h per year) are technical e.g., medical devices, information systems, signal and picture analysis, laboratory technique, and data protection. 2. CONCLUSION AND PERSPECTIVES. Students of medicine, and some paramedical studies, are able to use computer in their profession after having taken these courses. Bachelors of medical technology find application in biomedical research, hospitals, and medical technology firms.

• MeSH
• kurikulum MeSH
• lékařská informatika výchova   MeSH
• studium lékařství pregraduální * MeSH
• technologie lékařská výchova   MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Československo MeSH

The paper describes procedures and a tool we have developed to simplify and speed up creating of Czech biomedical ontologies. Our method is based on searching for concepts in a corpus of medical texts and binding those concepts to an established international ontology. The new ontology will have two major advantages: it will be compatible with the international ontology and it will possibly cover all concepts used in the Czech healthcare. The tool supports an author of ontology by mechanizing some routine tasks that occurs in the process of an ontology creation. It tries to learn how to identify concepts in texts and how to bind them to the ontology. The tool then displays the suggestions to a user, who can correct them and add some new ones. Based on this feedback the tool adjusts rules for concept finding and binding. To accomplish such behaviour we have employed some natural language processing methods and information extraction tools.

• MeSH
• lékařská informatika organizace a řízení   MeSH
• rozvoj plánování * MeSH
• systémy pro podporu klinického rozhodování MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Česká republika MeSH