Medicai, a Romanian health-tech company specializing in medical imaging and patient intake software, took its message to the European Parliament during Romanian Digital Day, where co-founder Andrei Blaj joined a panel on research and innovation. The event, co-organized by ANIS, the Romanian software and services industry association, and Innovation Labs at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, brought together technology leaders to discuss how Europe can translate its tech potential into competitive growth through research, academia-industry collaboration, public policy, and the adoption of private-sector innovation in public systems.
Blaj focused on the productivity impact of AI in healthcare, describing how Medicai addresses one of the most time-consuming tasks clinicians face: making sense of fragmented patient records. He illustrated the challenge 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.
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. Currently, Medicai 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. The presence of Medicai at the European Parliament underscores the growing importance of health-tech innovation in shaping the future of public healthcare across Europe.
