Pacient často přichází s vytištěným výstupem od chatbota.
42 ǀ POSITIV 2/2026
ZDRAVOTNICTVÍ
Paents Oen Come in with a Printed
Output from a Chatbot
We Need to Be Prepared
ChatGPT is not a doctor, yet people sll turn to it with health-related quesons, much as they
once did with Google Search. What is the dierence? Neurologist and AI adviser to the Minister
of Health Associate Professor Ondřej Volný explains.
There are many conferences on artificial intelligence
today. Why add another one?
Because our AdvanceMed conference is different.
It focuses exclusively on healthcare and medicine,
and that is the difference. We are not trying to provide
a broad overview of the entire field of AI; we want
to get specific information to specific people: doctors,
nurses, hospital management, but also patients
and patient organisations.
The motto of the second year was that it was
a conference for everyone – students, developers,
start-ups and representatives of venture capital
funds all attended. Alongside the Minister of Health,
the Government Commissioner for Artificial
Intelligence also took part. This year, we welcomed
guests from Poland, Slovakia, the United States,
Sweden, and a representative of the World Health
Organization. A conference like this had been missing
in Central Europe.
Do you focus only on lectures, or does something
tangible come out of it as well?
It is important to me that the conference has
practical outcomes. Every year, in cooperation
with the Moravian-Silesian Innovation Centre, we
organise a so-called Pitch Deck Session, where
students and young developers present their solutions
directly to potential investors and receive feedback.
One result of this cooperation, for example, was
the Healthcare Challenge 4.0 competition, held
under the auspices of the Minister and taking place
at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava. A hospital
comes with a specific problem, and students
and doctoral students propose a solution. We also
have feedback from participants who are now holding
discussions about the commercialisation of their
projects.
Patients today commonly ask chatbots questions
about their health. How is medicine responding
to this?
With a certain delay, but it is responding. The Ministry
of Health, in cooperation with our specialist society
and the Czech Association for Artificial Intelligence,
has prepared an AI guide for patients, which is available
to download free of charge and was also created
with the involvement of the National Association
of Patient Organisations. That is one outcome.
The second is that we are finally talking about it openly.
We know from studies that roughly one fifth of all
– zatím. Lékařská fakulta Ostravské univerzity byla prv-
ní v Česku a na Slovensku, která založila vlastní katedru
umělé inteligence; mám čest být jejím přednostou.
V únoru jsme uspořádali celodenní hybridní Med-AI
seminář pro studenty lékařských fakult z celého Česka
a Slovenska, pod záštitou ministrů obou zemí. Zájem
o seminář vyjádřila i zástupkyně WHO – je možné,
že formát přeneseme i do dalších zemí.
Na IPVZ – Institutu postgraduálního vzdělávání
ve zdravotnictví – vznikla katedra AI a jsou tam už kon-
krétní kurzy pro lékaře po ukončení studia. To jsou
první systémové kroky. Ale tempo, jakým se AI vyvíjí,
je rychlejší než tempo vzdělávacích institucí. Proto pí-
šeme knihy, pořádáme konference a zástupci naší
odborné společnosti CSAIM ČLS JEP (csaim.cz) jsou
pravidelně zváni na kardiologické, neurologické, psy-
chiatrické či ORL kongresy a říkáme: tohle existuje,
tohle byste měli znát.
| Text: Monika Ševčíková, foto: Ondřej Volný, Petr Hlubek