Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic

Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic (further on “the Institute“) was established in 1960. The Institute is an organisational component of the State; its founder is the Ministry of Health.

The National Health Information System (further on “NHIS“) is defined in Act no. 372/2011Sb, On health services and conditions of their provision (Act on health services) in Section 70, paragraph 1 (the Act is valid since April. 2012).

Administration of NHIS is delegated by MH to the Institute in accordance with the basic purpose and objective of its activity that follows from the Statute of the Institute. The extent of the mandate of the Institute is defined in Section 72, paragraph 1, letters a) to d) and f) of Act no. 372/2011Sb, on health services.

In handling personal data in NHIS the Institute proceeds in accordance with Act no. 101/2000 Sb., On personal data protection, in wording of later regulations.

The Institute is a component of the State Statistical Service (on the basis of the competence act) and performs this activity according to Act no. 89/1995 Sb., On state statistical service, in wording of later regulations. It cooperates with organs of State Statistical Service, mainly with Czech Statistical Office, it secures connection between NHIS and individual health care providers and it cooperates with the operators of information systems of other organisations in and out of the health sector.

The Institute will continue to follow the principles of the European Statistics Code of Practice that represents the common summary of European standards designated for statistical organs and for the whole European statistical system with the aim to secure high quality and credibility of European data. These principles concern, among other things, professional independence, confidentiality protection, reliability of the data and their precision, timeliness, punctuality, accessibility, intelligibility, clarity, comparability and consistency.

The Institute cooperates with associations of hospitals, associations of physicians, professional medical societies, health insurance companies and other organisations, particularly on precise specification of the NHIS contents and on utilisation of the collected data.

On the international level of health statistics the Institute cooperates particularly with WHO, OECD, the UN, EUROSTAT and other organisations. The Institute is the official presenter of NHIS data for the Czech Republic.

Contact

Institute of health information and statistics of the Czech Republic
Palackého nám. 4 , P.O.BOX 60,
128 01 Praha
email: uzis@uzis.cz