New approaches to health promotion and informatics education using Internet in the Czech Republic.

Rocz Akad Med Bialymst

European Center for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague.

Published: January 2006

The paper describes nowadays information technology skills in the Czech Republic. It focuses on informatics education using Internet, ECDL concept and the links between computer literacy among health care professionals and quality of health care. Everyone understands that the main source of wealth of any nation is information management and the efficient transformation of information into knowledge. There appear completely new decisive factors for the economics of the near future based on circulation and exchange information. It is clear that modern health care cannot be built without information and communication technologies. We discuss several approaches how to contribute to some topics of information society in health care, namely the role of electronic health record, structured information, extraction of information from free medical texts and sharing knowledge stored in medical guidelines.

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