• The Romanian healthcare system is at a crossroads. After years of continuous pressure, accentuated by successive crises, today we are talking not only about known problems, but about strategic decisions that will define the next decade.
• Health Forum aims to bring decision-makers, professionals and experts to the same table to analyze where we are, what works, what can no longer be postponed and, above all, what real changes are needed for a more efficient, more digitalized and more patient-oriented system.

The need for change

• For too long, the healthcare system has been operating in a reactive manner, managing emergencies, not building sustainability. The lack of medical staff, outdated hospital infrastructure, bureaucratic processes and the slow pace of digitalization are no longer just challenges — they are systemic risks.
• Today, at the Health Forum, we are talking about assumed change, about strategic decisions that must be made now, not tomorrow, for the health of Romania.

Human resources

• Any health system is, above all, about people. About doctors, nurses, auxiliary staff — fewer and fewer, more and more overworked — and about patients, who expect accessible, safe and predictable services.
• The lack of medical staff, migration, professional burnout are clear signals that the current model is no longer sustainable. This forum is a space for honest dialogue about how we rebuild trust and system capacity.

Digitalization, an essential condition for efficiency, transparency and access

• We live in an era where technology is advancing rapidly, but the healthcare system is still based, in many areas, on fragmented and unconnected processes. Digitalization is no longer an optional objective, but an essential condition for efficiency, transparency and access.
• The Health Forum aims to analyze how we can transform digitalization from a promise into a functional reality for hospitals, doctors and patients.

Insurance, a real public-private partnership

• The role that insurance can play in a modern health system.
• If we want a resilient system, adapted to demographic and technological pressures, we need to discuss all its components — including the role that insurance can play in the future architecture of health.
• And, not as an alternative to the public system, but as a complementary pillar of sustainability.
• We always talk about hospitals, reforms, public policies and national strategies. All of them are essential. But the European experience shows us one thing very clearly: no modern health system operates sustainably based exclusively on public financing.
• High-performing systems are built on complementarity.
• In countries like France, public insurance is complemented by complementary insurance that covers cost differences, additional services and accelerated access.
• In Germany, insurance companies are a structural part of the system’s architecture.
• In the Netherlands, the model is built on regulated competition between insurers.
• Let’s see where Romania is in 2026?

About hospitals and infrastructure

• Romanian hospitals faithfully reflect the state of the system: professional excellence in many cases, but uneven infrastructure, pressure on beds, lack of coherent investments and difficult management.

Medical waste management, a health problem public

• Medical waste management, a public health issue
• We will not only discuss the problems of hospitals, but how they can become part of an integrated system, focused on prevention, continuity and measurable results.
• Health Forum creates the framework for a necessary national dialogue, in which authorities, managers and the private sector analyze the realities of the system, evaluate the results and discuss concrete solutions for sustainable change. It is a space dedicated to strategic decisions that can transform the way resources, services and performance are managed in health.

DISCUSSION TOPICS

• PANEL 1 – STRATEGIC DECISIONS THAT WILL DEFINE THE NEXT DECADE
• PANEL 2 – HOW CAN WE REBUILD TRUST AND SYSTEM CAPACITY. DIGITALIZATION, AN ESSENTIAL CONDITION FOR EFFICIENCY AND ACCESS. INSURANCE, A REAL PUBLIC–PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP