Medicai co-founder Andrei Blaj represented the Romanian health-tech company at the Romanian Digital Day held at the European Parliament, participating in a panel on research and innovation co-organized by ANIS, the Romanian software and services industry association, and Innovation Labs at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. The panel brought together Romanian technology leaders to discuss how Europe can transform its tech potential into competitive growth, emphasizing research, academia-industry collaboration, public policy, and the adoption of private-sector innovation in public systems.
Speaking on the productivity impact of artificial intelligence in healthcare and the challenge of integrating private innovation into the public sector, Blaj described how Medicai, a top PACS and patient intake software, is reducing one of the most time-consuming tasks clinicians face: making sense of fragmented patient records. He illustrated this with a common oncology scenario: a patient arrives at a public hospital with a printed file of roughly 100 pages, which a doctor or resident must read in full to reconstruct the patient's history. With Medicai, that file is scanned at reception, organized chronologically, labeled by document type such as imaging report, biopsy, or immunohistochemistry report, and enriched with key extracted information, including diagnosis, staging, treatments administered, and medical history.
The feature, introduced four months ago, is now in use at 10 hospitals, processing thousands of patient files each month. In one reported case, a physician estimated that Medicai saved roughly five hours of manual review work for a single patient. Medicai currently serves more than 100 healthcare organizations across the European Union and the United States, supporting care for over 3 million patients, with a focus on imaging-heavy specialties including oncology, neurology, orthopedics, and radiology.
"Today, a doctor often has to read a hundred pages and rebuild a patient's history by hand. We turn that into minutes, so clinicians get that time back for care," said Andrei Blaj, Co-founder of Medicai. "That is exactly the conversation Europe needs about bringing private innovation into public healthcare, and it is why being on this panel mattered to us."
The panel was opened by Corina Vasile, Executive Director of ANIS, and Razvan Rughinis, Co-founder of Innovation Labs. Discussions focused on how research, academia-industry collaboration, and public policy can help build a more competitive European technology sector. The event underscores the importance of platforms like Medicai in streamlining healthcare workflows and improving patient outcomes by leveraging AI to reduce administrative burdens on clinicians. As European policymakers seek to enhance digital health adoption, Medicai's demonstration at the European Parliament highlights the potential for private-sector innovations to address systemic inefficiencies in public healthcare systems. More information is available at medicai.io.
