 Mr. Envish Valka, thank you so much for taking the time for this interview and first we'd like to know How you view eHealth and how is the chain of hope or circle of hope for people? Well circle of hope or chain of hope it was a reaction to a vicious circle of failing applications in eHealth that was mentioned in a previous Previous presentation, but actually what eHealth is. It is a way to Support health care with information technologies and to support quality of care and to support accessibility of care and also to support the cost containment of health care that is so important in all parts of the world So based on your experience, what's the reception of medical Practitioners, physicians to eHealth do they accept it? Are they willing to work with it based on your experience in the Czech Republic? Actually, there is some hesitation in the medical community. That's there's no discussion about that but again if you realize that it is a Tradition of medicine to find the ways to provide the best care you can Giving given the given the limited amount of money that you can spend for that care Then it's quite clear that the that the medical community will realize That eHealth is a help To all of them. The health is a way to empower both the patients and the Medical part of the of the health problems. Okay, so you mentioned that information is a kind of a weak link Let me speak about eHealth. So what did you mean by that? Can you elaborate? Well, it's information models that sometimes that still do not reflect properly some aspects of of health care and It's quite quite difficult to develop an information model of health care if you again if you realize that for instance World Bank is still aiming at The economic model of health care. So it's somehow interconnected because health is Something very subjective also given the definition of World Health Organization that health is a state of well-being not just absence of a disease which is very it which is a very subjective definition if you try to put it in some objective terms as information as Data and also was financing that then it brings it brings problems So in the next segment of the interview would like to know more about the assisted living Project, what is this project? What does it offer to patients? Actually again, it's a way to contain costs of care and it's a way to Improve the quality of care. It's known that the best for the patient in terms of both quality and Costs of care is to keep the patient in his home environment As long as you can because that's where the patient feels the best the patient feels the best and That's where the care is Is the cheapest because you don't have to pay the hotel costs so to say of the hospital So assisted living in a way is a concept that brings this into reality. You concentrate at the specific weaknesses that are That are given by the health status of the Of the person of the patient and you try to help using ICT so you can imagine or there are projects on Helping the patients recover after operations Early home and monitoring them in their home environment giving them advice to see their doctors for checkup at Times that are needed for the checkup and not at times that that were preset Sometimes earlier, so it's a way to personalize. It's a way to personalize the care And it's a way to yeah, it's a way to make the make the living as easy and as I would say is pleasant for them as possible as a similar project is a way is a project to assist visual impaired people in their in their hometowns for instance, and it's a natural idea to combine some GPS monitoring system and GSM Messaging to ask for help for these people In case they lose their way or they come to a difficult situation so that they can be advised What to what to do where to go or someone can be sent to help them directly Again, it's a really it's really a simple idea, but it takes some it takes some efforts to develop it in a successful project that combines GSM GPS Help desk digital maps. Yeah, it's it's a challenge to this kind of application Okay, the telemedicine is a very interesting concept and for those who don't know it Can you please tell us more about it and what can it offer to patients as well? Well, yes telemedicine is a very broad is a very broad area So I would rather concentrate on some specific projects to give sure to give examples. So one of them that That deals with the area of medical education is the federation of medical faculties that share educational content Yeah, it's again Making the textbooks and making the atlas is better available to students and at the same time to control To control the content. This is a project that is based based in The Czech Republic is run by one of the universities there and the network now is Covering all the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It's not just medical faculties But it's also but it's also other educational institutions that are joining that project. It's an open source project So I can easily imagine this project being this being spread to further geographic areas, for instance Yeah, geographic areas that are interconnected with a common or with a with a related languages Yeah, as a rabbi Mentioning open source. We'd like to know how open source can contribute to e-health and Linking it to the concept of peer review. So can you highlight on that, please? Yeah, I will use another project in telemedicine to Demonstrate this because yeah, it's an eye path. It's a it's a framework to mediate case-based consultations or case-based Assistants Health professionals in rural remote areas an example for that is central or sub-saharan Africa Where the pathologists that are quite Quite rare there or the technicians that process the pathology slides. They can send their data for for assessment for evaluation to the top experts around the world and it works this kind of Kind of concept. So it is a it is an open source project Which means that The that one year on one hand, it is open to what in medicine is known as peer review. It is open to Criticism it is open to improvements from peers from people that would be that would be using it a voice duplication of efforts, of course and It also allows to create specific modules for that kind of a system to Represent the local needs to address directly the local needs. So if there is a if you need the system to support you in some activity and you feel that The system would need some modification or some Some further development you can do it yourself, which is what the what the open source guys Called scratch your own age chain. Okay. So, yeah, it's a it has it's a I would say ideological connotations in medicine and that's the peer review The peer review concept and it also has its technical Technical aspects is technical advantage that are that are well known in the open source world. Okay Thank you so much for your insights and wish you the best of luck. Thank you. Thank you