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Jozef Benčík
Jozef Benčík is a Business Director of consulting and software company SAS. With his team, he focuses at support of sales, consulting and education activities in the public sector in Slovakia and Czech Republic. He works in SAS since 2012, before that he worked for more than 10 years in Hewlett - Packard Slovakia, s.r.o. Jozef finished studies at the University of Economics, Bratislava.
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Martin Smatana
Martin Smatana studied at Oxford and Imerial College in London, where he graduated in health management. He worked in England as an analyst at a public health institute. From 2016 to 2020, he headed the Institute of Health Policy. He currently works in the field of artificial intelligence and works as an analyst for the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission. In addition, he cooperates with the Association for the Protection of Patients' Rights, is an advisor to the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and the Family and the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of VšZP. He is the author of several publications and a member of the social protection committee of the European Commission.
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Peter Lukáč
Before joining the NCHI, the General Director of the National Center for Health Information, Peter Lukáč, was dedicated to the informatization of the public sector, focusing on project management, process consolidation and optimization of expenses, as well as research and innovation. He worked at the Ministry of Agriculture, the Agricultural Payment Agency and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for Investments and Informatization. As part of his work at NCHI, he is working to complete the complete transformation of the institution into a process-oriented leader with a pro-client approach to state and public administration bodies, healthcare providers, as well as citizens through the development of electronic healthcare services.
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Michal Kovačič
He completed high school studies at the Jura Hronac Gymnasium (1997 – 2001) and then a master's degree in law at the Faculty of Law of the Comenius University in Bratislava (2002 – 2009). Under the guidance of Ingrid Frohlichová, he devoted his diploma thesis to the issue of pension reform in Slovakia, and completed his defense on February 12, 2009. He started working in the field of media during his university studies, first as a production assistant (April 2002 – January 2004) and later as a moderator and morning news reporter (February 2004 – May 2007) at Slovak Television (STV). From March 2006 to December 2007, he worked as a radio news presenter at Fun radio, and from May 2007 to January 2008, he was a news reporter at STV. Since F…
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Matej Mišík
Matej Mišík is the director of the Institute of Health Analyzes of the Ministry of Health and serves on the supervisory boards of NÚSCH and VÚSCH. Previously, he was a partner in the startup Instarea, focusing on big data analytics. He studied health economics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and international economics at Vienna University of Economics and Business.
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