CERGAS Seminar "Bridging Stakeholders, Navigating Policies, and Turning Health Data into Action: A Bold Vision from the Czech Republic."

Across Europe, health systems are seeking ways to turn complex data into meaningful insights that guide policy and improve care. At the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, our team pursues this mission through advanced analytics of national administrative health data. We study patient pathways, treatment adherence, and time-to-therapy, while developing comparative analyses that reflect the highest standards of evidence-based evaluation.
Our work sits at the intersection of data, policy, and collaboration. In close partnership with the Health Insurance Bureau, the Ministry of Health, and national data custodians, we co-develop resort reports on oncological diseases that translate data into actionable intelligence for clinical and system-level improvement.

Beyond analysis, we operate a national indicator portal — a transparent, public platform visualizing healthcare performance metrics. Together, these initiatives illustrate a Czech model for bridging stakeholders, aligning data with policy, and transforming analytics into practical impact.

Speaker:

Aleš Tichopád is an Associate Professor and Head of Research of the CzechHTA team at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University (ČVUT). His work focuses on large-scale healthcare data analytics, health technology assessment (HTA), and real-world evidence for evaluating the efficiency and economics of healthcare delivery. Active in HTA and health economics since 2003, Aleš previously worked with international research organizations such as IMFORM (Premier Research), Kendle (Syneos Health), and CEEOR (later Kantar Health). He earned his PhD in Life Sciences from the Technical University of Munich in 2004, where he also conducted postdoctoral research. He became Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering in 2023 and has authored over 60 international publications with more than 13,000 citations.

Link zoom:

https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/99548740003?pwd=bZSOhUbWMb6Ctgp7bdI0cYHw9hirX2.1

Meeting ID:

995 4874 0003

Passcode:

248090

Lunch at the end of the meeting: for those willing to participate in person, click here before the 31st of October.