About us

Team

The Advance Healthcare Management Consulting team consists of people who have been longterm involved in analysis of problems of the Czech and Slovak health care systems, and seeking and supporting possible solutions.

MUDr. PAVEL HROBOŇ, M.S.
founder and partner

physician and economist, graduated from the 2nd Medical Faculty of the Charles University in Prague and healthcare management at the Harvard University. He lectures at several faculties of  Charles University and the Management Center Innsbruck. He worked for 3 years as a deputy minister of health, responsible for health insurance, medicines and medical devices. He has been a member of the European Health Innovation Leadership Network for several years. From 2002 to 2005, he worked for the General Health Insurance Company of the Czech Republic as an advisor and head of strategy. From 1998 to 2002, he worked as a consultant for the international consulting firm McKinsey & Company in several European countries on projects in the field of healthcare and financial services.

Mgr. HENRIETA TULEJOVÁ, M.S.
founder and partner

economist, graduated from Masters in Health Policy and Management at Brandeis University in Boston and financial management at the Faculty of Management of Comenius University in Bratislava. At Advance Consulting, she advises on health insurance strategies, teleconsultations, managed care, disease management programs and innovative contracts between health insurance companies and health care providers, e.g. development of DRG contracts, bundled contracts and P4P. For more than 5 years she worked as a manager of the strategic planning department in the Dôvera Health Insurance company. For several years she was a member of reform teams at the Czech and Slovak ministries of health and she was focused on reform of health insurance companies and public health insurance.

MUDr. Ing. DANIEL HODYC, Ph.D.
founder and partner

A physician and economist, he studied medicine at the 2nd Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and economics with a specialization in health services management at the Prague University of Economics. He is a co-founder, internal lecturer and partner of Advance Healthcare Management Institute and Advance Consulting, and also gives lectures on health economics at Charles University. As a consultant to the Ministry of Health, he participated in the implementation of the DRG system for acute inpatient care reimbursement in the Czech Republic between 2007 and 2012.
Since 2014, he has become a managing partner at Advance Hospital Analytics. His professional interests include reimbursement mechanisms, analyses of healthcare facility production, projects focused on changes in healthcare delivery processes associated with the implementation of clinical protocols, and strategic projects to ensure the availability and development of healthcare services.

PhDr. BLANKA ČERMÁKOVÁ, MHA
Project manager & Data analyst

Blanka is a partner of Advance Hospital Analytics. She specializes in data processing and analysis, especially for hospitals, but also other entities in the Czech and Slovak Republics, and in the standardization of processes in these institutions. She participates in the preparation of training courses and workshops focused on healthcare financing and also leads a course on controlling the production of healthcare services.

In 2012, she graduated from the Master's program at the Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University. During her studies, she was a member of the Public Finance working group at the National Economic Council of the Government. After graduating, she fully focused on analytical work in the healthcare sector. Until 2013, she worked at the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic as an analyst in the Health Insurance Supervision Department. In 2013–2014, she studied the MHA executive program in healthcare management.

Mgr. KRISTÍNA VALLOVÁ, MHA
Data analyst & Project manager

graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics at Comenius University in Bratislava, and completed a semester-long residency at the University of Bergen, Norway. She has been working for Advance Consulting since mid-2017 as an analyst. She focuses on analysis and processing of large-volume data sets. She has experience with analysis of data reported to health insurance companies in the fields of outpatient and inpatient care in the Slovak and Czech Republics. She evaluates the impact of payment mechanisms and other ways of influencing behaviour of health care providers.

Mgr. DOMINIKA ŠEBOVÁ, MHA
Analyst & Project manager

graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics at Comenius University in Bratislava, and completed a semester-long residency at the University of Ghent, Belgium. She has been working for Advance Consulting since mid-2018 as an analyst. She focuses on analysis of outpatient and inpatient care data in the Czech and Slovak Republics, reimbursement mechanisms of inpatient care and development of mechanisms for measuring quality of inpatient care.

Mgr. MAGDALENA KOLÍNKOVÁ ŠKODOVÁ, MHA
Data analyst & Project manager

In 2020, she obtained her Master diploma in the field of Economy and Finance at the Institute of Economic Studies at Charles University. During her studies, she completed one semester abroad at Utrecht University in Netherlands. She has devoted herself to the field of economics in healthcare already during her studies, her diploma thesis examined models for redistribution of funds among Czech health insurance companies. She has been cooperating with Advance Consulting since 2018 and focuses mainly on processing and analysing data in the field of ambulatory and inpatient care, projects aimed at standardization of care (clinical protocols) and regional hospital strategies.

Ing. VERONIKA KLIMKOVÁ
Analyst & Project manager

She studied International Relations at the University of Economics in Prague, with a specialisation in consulting. She enriched her master's programme with a semester-long study stay in Bergen (Norway). Her main area of interest has long been healthcare, which she dealt with both in her Master’s thesis focused on the digitization of Czech healthcare, and later on specific projects in the technological start-up UNICO.AI and the international consulting firm Deloitte. She also works on an independent project called Initiative for Effective Healthcare. She started working with Advance Consulting in 2022, where she is primarily focused on economic consulting, optimizing the strategy of hospitals in the regions and payment mechanisms.

Ing. MAREK TOMKA
Analyst

In 2024, he completed his studies at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava at the Department of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry. As part of his master's program in Mathematical and Computational Modeling, his thesis focused on analyzing the impact of the factor 'childhood age' on hospital costs in the Czech Republic using machine learning methods. He has been working with Advance Consulting since 2023 as an analyst, primarily focusing on data preparation and analysis.

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