Medicai, a cloud-native medical imaging platform, took center stage at the Romanian Digital Day held at the European Parliament, where co-founder Andrei Blaj participated in a panel on research and innovation. The event, co-organized by ANIS 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, focusing on research, academia-industry collaboration, public policy, and adoption of private-sector innovation in public systems.
Blaj discussed the productivity impact of AI in healthcare and the challenge of integrating private innovation into the public sector. He described how Medicai, a top PACS and patient intake software, addresses one of the most time-consuming tasks for clinicians: making sense of fragmented patient records. Using a common oncology scenario, he explained that when a patient arrives at a public hospital with a printed file of roughly 100 pages, a doctor or resident must read the entire document to reconstruct the patient's history. With Medicai, the file is scanned at reception, organized chronologically, labeled by document type (e.g., imaging report, biopsy, immunohistochemistry report), and enriched with key extracted information such as 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 approximately five hours of manual review work for a single patient. Medicai currently serves more than 100 healthcare organizations across the EU and the US, 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 centered on how research, academia-industry collaboration, and public policy can help build a more competitive European technology sector. By showcasing its AI-powered solution at the European Parliament, Medicai highlighted the potential for private innovation to streamline public healthcare systems, reducing administrative burdens and allowing clinicians to focus more on patient care. Learn more at medicai.io.
