Let me summarize.Jana
Zvarov ' a, DrSc., Director of the European Centre '
for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology
(EuroMISE Centre) of Charles University Prague and
Czech Academy of Sciences, to be handed over during the International Joint Meeting EuroMISE 2004Ubiquitously available computing
resources and networks, existing worldwide for the
transmission of all varieties of data, will allow us
to consider new types of information systems for
health care, including new kinds of health monitoring and also new opportunities for the analysis
of biomedical and health data.These transinstitutional information system architectures and
infrastructures will, when appropriately designed
and adequately strategically managed, provide
new opportunities for the whole field of biomedical
and health informatics as well as of biomedical
statistics and epidemiology.Let
me quote from the certificate: for her outstanding
achievements in the field of Medical Informatics,
Statistics and Epidemiology, the executive board of
UMIT has decided on January 14th, 2004, to award
the University Medal of UMIT to Prof. RNDr.Twenty years after
Peter Reichertz'lecture on the past, present and
future of hospital information systems [1], we can
recognize that institution-centered hospital information systems are developing towards regional
and global health information systems, with new,
strongly extended functionalities and tasks.And let us keep in mind that
(bio-) medical informatics, health informatics, as
well as statistics and epidemiology are aiming not
for more technology, but for more and better care,
a care that is affordable in aging societies.It is the initiator of the European Centre
for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, Professor Jana Zvarova.Twenty years after Peter
Reichertz talk, we may redefine the aim of health
information systems as to contribute to a highquality, efficient health care, now for patients and
consumers and for medical research.