On 3 June 2010 a videoconference took place between staff of the Slovakian National Health Information Centre (NHIC) and experts from one of the most prestigious hospitals in the United States - the Mayo Clinic.

They discussed personal genomics and Slovakia's plan for the implementation of the second 'eHealth wave'. The American specialists presented the possibility of a genomic data warehouse - the Biologically Oriented Architecture Repository (BORA) - and the future uses of clinical genomics.

The reason behind the creation of the BORA project lies with the need for researchers and practitioners to obtain further clinical knowledge based on genomic data. BORA will enable the collection, storage and processing of large sets of genomic data from different sources. Moreover, the selection and analysis of this data using the interface to the various analytic tools creates an opportunity for its integration with the clinical data of the patients according to their genomic profiles.

The videoconference was furthermore an occasion to use the new videoconferencing technology developed by the NHIC to cooperate with other centres worldwide on the implementation of ehealth. NHIC acts as the national guardian and operator of ehealth.

 

Further information: 

• Original press release - Ministry of Health (in Slovakian)
• National Health Information Centre