Medicai, a Romanian health-tech company specializing in medical imaging and patient intake software, took its message to the European Parliament on June 30, 2026, as part of Romanian Digital Day. Co-founder Andrei Blaj participated 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 technology leaders to discuss how Europe can turn its tech potential into competitive growth, focusing on research, academia-industry collaboration, public policy, and the adoption of private-sector innovation in public systems.
Blaj spoke about the productivity impact of AI in healthcare and the challenge of bringing private innovation into the public sector. He 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. 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 it in full to reconstruct the patient's history. With Medicai, that file is scanned at reception, organized chronologically, labeled by document type, and enriched with key extracted information, including diagnosis, staging, treatments, 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 EU and the US and supports 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. "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. Medicai's demonstration at the European Parliament underscores the potential for health-tech innovations to improve efficiency and patient care in public healthcare systems across Europe.
