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15 Nov 2023

MEFANET for the sixteenth time: Artificial intelligence in medical education, virtual reality and book launch

For the first time in history, the 16th MEFANET conference was held outside the Czech Republic in the Slovak Congress Hotel Centrum in Košice. The whole event was held in the spirit of artificial intelligence in medical education, virtual reality and there were also short presentations by regular participants about their improvement and modernization of teaching.

29 Mar 2023

A new book on COVID-19 infodemic

Over the past three years, not only has a wave of severe respiratory disease swept over virtually all of human civilization, but also a wave of vast amounts of information related to it. A new book by Václav Moravec and Ladislav Dušek deals with this phenomenon that accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic and often caused more damage than the virus alone.

22 Mar 2023

Open data as one of the benefits of computerisation of healthcare

At the conference on computerisation of health care and telemedicine under the auspices of the Minister of Health of the Czech Republic, which was held in Brno, we presented and discussed the National Concept of Opening Health Data.

8 Nov 2022

MEFANET 2022 conference

The fifteenth year of the traditional conference of Czech and Slovak medical and nursing faculties with international participation took place on 2-3 November 2022 in the Continental Hotel in Brno.

20 Sep 2022

OSCE workshop: sharing experiences

On Sunday 11 September 2022, a workshop was held at the Simulation Centre to share experiences in the field of Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE).

12 Sep 2022

Summer School of Computational Biology 2022

This year's Computational Biology Summer School was dedicated to an area that has become, perhaps somewhat unexpectedly during the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the key topics of communication among the professional community and towards the general public: open data and its importance in health and biomedicine.

3 Jun 2022

Project SESSAD: Sharing Experience in Scientific Software development

On 1.-2. June 2022, the first workshop for the SESSAD project took place in Brno, the aim of which is to share experience in the development of scientific software and applications. A partner from the Austrian institution SCCH visited Brno.

16 Dec 2021

Major European activity in the fight against cancer with the Czech participation

With the end of 2021 approaching, the EU iPAAC Joint Action is also coming to an end. Its main output is an online database of projects, activities and recommendations in various areas of cancer prevention and care, to the development of which the joint workplace of the Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses at the Faculty of Medicine of the Masaryk University and the Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic has significantly contributed.

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