The conference of digital medicine “The Future is Now – Digitization of the Health System in Serbia” gathered the leaders of the development processes in the field of digital medicine in the region and in Europe. On behalf of Heliant, Vukašin Radulović spoke about the progress in the field of digitization in healthcare as well as about future challenges.
The state of the digital health system in the Republic of Serbia – was the theme of this year’s conference “The future is now”, held in Belgrade hotel “Moskva” recently.
The conference gathered the leaders of digital technology development processes in our region and in Europe. The conference was attended by the representatives of pharmaceutical and IT companies, government and local government administration, medical doctors, insurance providers, start-up companies, and small and medium-sized private sector healthcare providers .
Vukašin Radulović from the company “Heliant” opened the panel discussion “Measuring Treatment Results”, attended by MD/PhD Ferenc Vicko (State Secretary at the Ministry of Health), Bojan Trkulja (Director General of the Serbian Association of Innovative Pharmaceutical Industry – INOVIA) and Vladimir Micieta (Reimbursement & Government Affairs Manager, Medtronic, Slovakia).
Radulović pointed out that the digital transformation of the healthcare system in Serbia is almost completed, and that the necessity of using information systems is undisputable today.
“The highest merit in the process of healthcare digitization can be attributed to managers and employees in healthcare facilities, who have made a great progress in raising the technology threshold and awareness of the necessity of using computers. On this path, it was of great help that the confidence in digital data security is much bigger today than it used to be in the past”, Radulović said.
The panel discussion has pointed out that as a result of digitization a certain quantity of data has been obtained, that numerous information in the healthcare system is now available in digital form, but that there is still an effort to turn this amount of data into quality data, which will enable better insight into the processes and structure of the healthcare system in Serbia.
Vukašin Radulović from Heliant pointed out that a special challenge is the terminological overlapping in the medical and engineering profession, and that it is necessary to make additional efforts towards better communication, because often different definitions are used for similar terms.
“It is up to us to make the most complicated concepts from both professions understandable to the other part”, Radulović said at the conference on the digitization of the healthcare system in Serbia.