🇨🇿 Annual Conference MEDICAL DEVICES 2025

The event is held in Czech language only!

This year's conference will be divided into three thematic blocks:

1. The first block will be devoted to the revision of medical device legislation, where presentations and panel discussions will focus on the current preparations for comprehensive legislative amendments at both the EU level (MDR and IVDR) and in the Czech Republic (the Medical Devices Act and IVD).

2. In the second block, we will focus on the field of medical devices from the perspective of Czech hospitals. We will discuss the implementation of EU legislation in hospitals and related news, problems, and possible challenges. We will focus, for example, on effective work with UDI, the use of EMDN codes, and the issue of checking regulatory documents for legacy devices.

3. The third block will focus on the economics of medical devices. Here, we will discuss the introduction of mandatory e-Prescriptions, new developments in the classification of hospital devices (ZUM) for reimbursement, and changes in price regulation.

PROGRAMME:

09:30 - 10:00 Registration & welcome coffee

10:00 - 10:05 Welcoming

Zuzana Hodková


Conference Moderator, Deputy Head of SZ BYZNYS

10:05 - 10:15 Foreword

Jiří Kratochvíl
 

Head of the Czech Office for Standards, Metrology and Testing

1. BLOCK – Medical Devices Legislation

10:15 - 10:55 Presentations

Tomáš Boráň


Head of the State Institute for Drug Control

Jakub Král

Attorney and Partner at Porta Medica Legal

10:55 - 12:00 Discussion panel

• Revision of the MDR, IVDR, and the Act on Medical Devices and IVDs

• Cross-cutting legislation                                   

panelists:

Adam Vojtěch

Former Minister of Health

Jan Kavalírek


Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade and Government Representative for AI

Daniela Rrahmaniová


Head of the Department of Medical Devices and Price and Reimbursement Regulation, Ministry of Health

Karolína Peštová


Director of the Medical Devices Regulation Section, State Institute for Drug Control

Jakub Král 

Attorney and Partner at Porta Medica Legal

2. BLOCK – Hospitals and Medical Devices

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 13:30 Presentations

Petra Remešová


Head of Systems Department, State Institute for Drug Control

Aleš Martinovský


Partner at Porta Medica

13:30 - 14:30 Discussion panel

• Eudamed, UDI, EMDN, and hospital logistics

• Public procurement and purchase of medical devices and IVDs                        

panelists:

Petra Remešová


Head of Systems Department, State Institute for Drug Control

Pavla Cihlářová


Director of GS1 Czech Republic

Petr Foltýn


Director of the National Center for Electronic Health Care (addressed)

Čeněk Merta


Chairman of the working group of the Ministry of Health

Jiří Gajdoš


Director of the Commercial Department, České Budějovice Hospital

Aleš Martinovský

Partner at Porta Medica 

14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break

3. BLOCK – Economy, innovation, and big data

15:00 - 15:30 Presentations

Daniela Rrahmaniová

Head of the Department of Medical Devices and Price and Reimbursement Regulation, Ministry of Health

Petr Koucký

Director of the Information Technology Department, State Institute for Drug Control

15:30 - 16:30 Discussion panel

• Price regulation and legislative anchoring of reimbursement regulation ZUM

• Obligatory e-Prescriptions and mail dispensing of medical devices and IVDs                            

panelists:

Daniela Rrahmaniová 

Head of the Department of Medical Devices and Price and Reimbursement Regulation, Ministry of Health

Karolína Peštová  

Director of the Medical Devices Regulation Section, State Institute for Drug Control

Jiří Štěrba

Director of the Medical Devices Department, General Health Insurance Company of the Czech Republic

Jan Beneš 

Chairman of the Medical Devices Committee of the Czech Health Insurance Companies Association       

Miroslav Palát

President of CzechMed

Jakub Král

Attorney and Partner at Porta Medica Legal

16:30 - 16:45 Acknowledgements and farewell

FEE:

• 5.900 CZK excluding VAT

• participants of the MDR/IVDR Qualification Course of the Czech Agency for Standardization receive a 50% discount

• participants who are employees of a hospital can apply the discount code HOSPITAL and receive a discount of 1.000 CZK 

• 100% cancellation fee applies after bindingly confirmed registration, but with the possibility of sending a replacement participant