National Health Information Portal in the Czech Republic: guaranteed content, open data and visualization

KOMENDA, Martin. National Health Information Portal in the Czech Republic: guaranteed content, open data and visualization. In 17th GIN Annual Conference. 2022.

Basic information

• Original name: National Health Information Portal in the Czech Republic: guaranteed content, open data and visualization
• Authors: KOMENDA, Martin.
• Edition: 17th GIN Annual Conference, 2022.

Other information

• Original language: Czech
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 10200 1.2 Computer and information sciences
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Organization unit: Faculty of Medicine

Abstract

Background The National Health Information Portal (NHIP) provides the general public with a completely new guaranteed source of information from various medical and health care domains in the Czech Republic. All published content is prepared by leading experts and authorities it is published under the auspices of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic. Objective The main objective of this project is to provide valid information about diseases, prevention and systematically educate users in a field of health literacy. An integral part of the portal is an interactive health care map where user can easily find the nearest health care provider. The portal includes also easy-to-understand and user-friendly descriptions of selected open datasets, which are available in the national open data catalogue. These data suitable for the general public are presented also in an interactive way (web visualisation, infographics). Methods This project is built on long-term in-house team collaboration: involved stakeholders (government departments and Czech Medical Association, a development team consisting of system analysts, graphic designers, web designers, database specialists, web application developers, testers, editors, copywriters, reviewers and media experts. Future prospects NHIP games are an innovative interactive component of testing knowledge in the field of medical and healthcare domains improving health literacy, which is based on the proven concept of so-called virtual patients. This functionality will be implemented on NHIP in the following months and it will open a completely new element of gamification for all users.