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The conference is held in Czech and English with simultaneous interpretation.

The conference is primarily intended for managers of hospitals and other healthcare facilities, their founders or owners, doctors and nurses in leading positions, employees of health insurance companies and public administration, as well as for supplier companies. The goal is to inspire changes in the functioning of the organizations they lead.

Day 1 - Conference opening

8:00 – 9:00
Registration

9:00 – 9:15
Conference opening: Vlastimil Válek, Minister, Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic

9:15 – 10:30
Why do we need higher productivity?
Pavel Hroboň, Managing Partner, Advance Healthcare Management Institute | Czech Republic

Pavel studied medicine at Charles University in Prague and health policy and health management at Harvard University. He has experienced the healthcare environment from many perspectives - as a practicing physician, McKinsey consultant & Company, director of strategy and advisor to the General Health Insurance Company of the Czech Republic or deputy minister of health. In 2009, he co-founded the Advance Healthcare Management Institute and created the successful Executive Master of Healthcare Administration program. Pavel lectures at the 3rd Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and is a member of the Government's National Economic Council.

Long-term results of the Dutch healthcare reform
Patrick Jeurissen, Science Officer, Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports | Netherlands

Patrick Jeurissen is Professor of Health Systems and Finance at Radboud University Faculty of Medicine and also works for the Ministry of Health, Social Affairs and Sport in the Netherlands. His research focuses on health policy, financing, cost control, access to health care, and the role of commercial providers. He is the author of more than 100 publications and co-author of four books. He also has a Ph.D. in Health Economics and Policy and an M.P.A., both from Erasmus University Rotterdam. As an expert on health strategy, he advised the EU, WHO and several national governments, for example in Switzerland, Austria, Cyprus, or Finland, regarding health reform and fiscal sustainability. Patrick represented the Dutch government at the OECD for many years and was the first chairman of their flagship working team for the PaRiS system. He is also a sought-after speaker at (international) forums and works as an expert editor for Health Policy, a renowned academic periodical. In 2024, he became the global leader for health policy at Royal Philips.

10:30 – 13:30

Block 1 – Financing for the Future

Out-of-pocket payments as part of socially fair and sustainable financing of the healthcare system in Slovakia
Henrieta Tulejová, Partner, Advance Healthcare Management Institute | Slovak Republic

Henrieta Tulejová is a partner and internal lecturer at Advance Healthcare Management Institute. She studied Masters in Health Policy and Management at Brandeis University in Boston and financial management at the Faculty of Management of the Comenius University in Bratislava. At Advance, Henrieta works in the area of health insurance, setting up sustainable healthcare financing and analyzing the effectiveness of care provision in hospitals. She worked on several managed care projects, disease management programs and innovative contracts between health insurance companies and health care providers, e.g. package contracts and P4P. For more than 5 years, she worked as a manager of the strategic planning department at the health insurance company Dôvera. Before that, she worked as a member of the reform teams of Tomáš Julínek and Rudolf Zajac, where she worked on the reform of health insurance companies and public health insurance.

Sustainable financing of Health Care Systems, the Slovenian Case

Dušan Jošar Head of Unit, Directorate for accessibility and economics | Slovenia

Proposal for long-term sustainable healthcare financing in the Czech Republic
Pavel Hroboň, Managing Partner, Advance Healthcare Management Institute | Czech Republic

Panel discussion, including questions from the audience
moderated by Henrieta Tulejová

14:30 – 18:00

Block 2 – Optimizing Hospital Cooperation

Concentration and distribution of treatments in the Dutch hospital sector: solutions and challenges
Roel Goffin, CFO/COO of Executive Board of Zuyderland Medical Centre | Netherlands

Roel has been a member of the executive board of the Zuyderland health group since March 2009, with responsibility for finance and operational management. He previously held the position of hospital director and controller in Zuyderland, where he served in these capacities from the beginning of September 2001. He is also a board member of the Association of Dutch Topclinical Hospitals, president of the Dutch Handball Federation and a member of the supervisory board of Prisma (provider of services for clients with intellectual disabilities). .

How to define the roles of individual hospitals
Daniel Hodyc, Advance Healthcare Management Institute | Czech Republic

Daniel Hodyc is a partner and in-house lecturer at Advance Healthcare Management Institute. Daniel studied medicine at Charles University in Prague and health service management at the University of Economics. He is the co-founder of the company Advance Healthcare Management Institute, which provides comprehensive education in the field of health services management to executives in the healthcare industry. He is also a partner and senior consultant at Advance Healthcare Management Consulting, where he is engaged in analysis and consulting in various areas of healthcare, e.g. creating clinical protocols or evaluating the production of health care providers. At Advance Hospital Analytics, he is also engaged in the evaluation of hospitals.

Healthcare strategy of the Liberec region
Tomáš Roubíček, Medical Director and Vice Chairman of the Board, Liberec Regional Hospital | Czech Republic

Tomáš Roubíček is a cardiologist (electrophysiologist) at the Liberec Regional Hospital (KNL). He also worked at VFN Prague, the Medical Rescue Service of the Liberec Region and at IKEM Prague. He teaches at the Faculty of Health Studies of the Technical University of Liberec and at the 3rd Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University. As part of his scientific work, he is engaged in problems of heart failure (cardiac resynchronization therapy). At KNL, he was at the birth of the successful program for medics called Lékarom nanečisto. He has been the medical director of KNL since 2022. His priorities include staff education with an emphasis on communication both within the team and with patients and their families. In 2024, he graduated with a Master of Healthcare Administration. It is the guarantor of the policy of prevention and care for patients with cardiovascular diseases in the Liberec region. He participates in the creation of the healthcare concept of the Liberec Region for the period 2024+.

Orthopedic program of the South Bohemian Region

Michal Šnorek, Chairman of the Board of South Bohemian Hospitals | Czech Republic

Panel discussion, including questions from the audience
moderated by Daniel Hodyc

19:00 – 21:30 Evening gathering in the centre of Prague

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9:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m

Block 3 – Remote Healthcare Provision and Digitalization

Survey on the approach to digitalization in Czech and Slovak hospitals
Pavel Hroboň, managing partner, Advance Healthcare Management Institute | Czech Republic

Implementing digital innovations in mental health care
Martin Kultan, CEO and Chairman of the Board, DÔVERA zdravotná poisťovňa | Slovak Republic

Martin Kultan is the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Dôvera, the largest Slovak private health insurance company. He has devoted his entire career so far to health care – in addition to various positions in Dôvera, he was involved in interstate reimbursements at the Health Care Supervision Office and worked as the director of health care procurement at the General Health Insurance Company (VšZP). He has been working in Dôvera on and off since 2003, the last twelve years as CEO. From this position, he initiates and manages the implementation of key innovations in the electronic healthcare sector, such as the Electronic Branch, the Safe Medicines Online service and mobile applications. At the same time, Dôvera was the first insurance company in Slovakia to introduce an integrated care program (Medipartner Plan) and a care program for chronically ill patients - Better life with diabetes.

Virtual emergency services as a tool for savings
Jiří Pecina, founder and owner of Meddi | Czech Republic

Since 2016, together with his wife Alena Ingrid Pecina, he has been behind the development of the MEDDI telemedicine platform and focuses on the development of telemedicine and digitization healthcare in the Czech Republic and other countries of Europe and Latin America. The company MEDDI hub is also behind the development of BioScan, which enables orientation remote measurement of physiological status using the MEDDI application and the front or main camera of a smartphone. He is the 1st vice-chairman of the Alliance for Telemedicine, Digitization of Healthcare and Social Services, and at the same time a member of the Scientific Council of the Sting University of Economics and Finance and President of the International Organization for Telemedicine in the area of cyber security. He lectures at workshops for students of the 1st Faculty of Medicine of Charles University.

Digitalization in social residential services, connecting clients and families
Barbora Vaculíková, CEO, Penta Hospitals CZ | Czech Republic

Barbora Vaculíková has been successfully leading the Penta Hospitals CZ group for more than eight years, which became the largest private operator of health and social care services in the Czech Republic during her tenure. Penta Hospitals CZ continues to grow very dynamically and focuses on the integration of a wide spectrum of health and social care. IN the group currently operates nine acute and follow-up care hospitals, many specialized outpatient clinics, more than 3,500 beds in ALZHEIMER HOME homes and has recently expanded its activities into the home care sector as well. Thanks to its unique portfolio of services and the synergistic interactions between them, the Penta Hospitals group is constantly improving the regional accessibility and quality of care and now employs more than five thousand people. Barbora has been working in the healthcare industry for more than 20 years. She began her professional career as a midwife and intensive care nurse. Over the years, she gradually worked her way up to the positions of manager and director of care quality and safety. In his current position, he places great emphasis on integration of care, efficiency and innovation, including the use of the latest technologies and procedures.

Digital tools and artificial intelligence in increasing efficiency in ophthalmology
Petr Kocian, founder and owner of the Eye Clinic NeoVize | Czech Republic

In the past, Petr worked as the general director of one of the first Czech private hospitals in Neratovice. He gained further experience through a joint purchasing project for several Czech hospitals. Petr is one of the founders of the Střešovice managed care plan in Prague and the general director of ophthalmology of the Lexum clinic, which has become the leading eye center in the Czech Republic. He is also the founder of eye surgery clinics NeoVize in Brno, DuoVize in Prague and NeoVízia in Bratislava, Slovakia. Another part of his professional experience is the co-founding of the urological polyclinics UroKlinikum and UroVize, as well as the Center for Diabetology and Endocrinology DIAvize. He was also involved in the development of the Aireen system, an AI-based screening tool for diabetic retinopathy.

Panel discussion, including questions from the audience
moderated by Pavel Hroboň

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(*) Accommodation for participants is provided at the venue of the conference – Hotel Pyramida – at discounted conference prices:

Conference fee for participants from non-profit organizations

12,000 CZK or 500 EUR

The price includes VAT

(*) Accommodation for participants is provided at the venue of the conference - Hotel Pyramida - at discounted conference prices.

(**) We consider non-profit organizations to be legally or de facto operating in a non-profit regime. These may include, for example, patient organizations, research, scientific and educational institutions, health service providers and health insurance companies. We also count public administration among non-profit organizations. If in doubt, please contact the organizers.

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