Medicai, a leading provider of cloud-native medical imaging and patient intake software, took its message to the European Parliament on June 30, 2026, as co-founder Andrei Blaj participated in the Romanian Digital Day. The event, co-organized by ANIS, the Romanian software and services industry association, and Innovation Labs at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, brought together Romanian technology leaders to discuss how Europe can leverage its tech potential for competitive growth.
Blaj joined a panel focused on research and innovation, emphasizing the productivity impact of artificial intelligence in healthcare and the challenge of integrating private-sector innovation into public systems. He described how Medicai's platform addresses a critical pain point for clinicians: the time-consuming task of sifting through fragmented patient records.
Using a common oncology scenario, Blaj illustrated the problem: 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. Medicai's solution scans the file at reception, organizes it chronologically, labels documents by type (e.g., imaging report, biopsy, immunohistochemistry report), and extracts key information such as diagnosis, staging, treatments, and medical history. This 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.
"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."
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. The panel was opened by Corina Vasile, Executive Director of ANIS, and Razvan Rughinis, Co-founder of Innovation Labs. Discussions centered on how research, academia-industry collaboration, and public policy can help build a more competitive European technology sector.
The implications of Medicai's technology are significant. By reducing the time clinicians spend on administrative tasks, the platform allows them to focus more on patient care, potentially improving outcomes and reducing burnout. For Europe, where public healthcare systems often struggle with resource constraints, the adoption of such innovations could lead to more efficient use of medical personnel and better patient experiences. Moreover, the discussion at the European Parliament underscores the growing recognition of the need to bridge the gap between private-sector innovation and public healthcare, a challenge that Medicai is actively addressing.
Medicai is a cloud-native medical imaging platform used by more than 100 healthcare organizations across the EU and the US to securely manage, view, share, and collaborate on medical data. Learn more at medicai.io.
