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HEALTHCARE 2010
„Policies and business mechanisms in the healthcare system”
5th edition, September 27th - 28th, Hotel Athenee Palace Hilton, Bucharest
The most prominent stakeholders from the local and the international healthcare sector have gathered this year on 27th and 28th of September in Bucharest for the 5th edition of the Healthcare International Forum 2010 - Policies and Business Mechanisms in European Healthcare Systems.
Over 200 representatives of the international health organizations (French Health Economics Society, France, Private Hospital Association, Poland, Generic Pharmaceutical Industry Association, United States of America), state officials, CEOs of major healthcare companies, including pharmaceuticals, private insurers, banks, IT&C, consultancy and law firms, professional associations of physicians and pharmacists have debated over the critical issues of the healthcare system trying to deliver solutions, generate cooperation frameworks and outline new development directions for quality healthcare provision.
More than 30 speakers from Romania, Austria, Poland, USA, France, UK, Germany and Scotland debated over how to balance the deficits within the system by shifting from public to private in healthcare, mechanisms for supplementing funds within the system, the public-private partnership as an alternative solution of financing the system and the private healthcare insurance as a solution to retrieve the financial pressure within the system.
The Healthcare International Forum 2010 also benefited from the support of 17 partners, some of the most important players from the domestic healthcare industry. Astra Asigurari - one of the largest insurers from the domestic market, Amgen - world´s largest independent biotech company, Cegedim, the most important provider of analysis and market studies for the pharmaceutical industry from Romania, Centrul Medical Unirea –top player from private medical services market , Antibiotice Iasi - the largest Romanian producer of medicines, Ipsen - a global biopharmaceutical group, Roche – one of the world’s leading healthcare companies, GE Healthcare- medical technologies and services, Fildas – top player on the local pharmaceutical market, Catena – chain of pharmacies, part of Fildas Trading, Banca Transilvania- one of the top ten banks from Romania and Point Public Affairs - a fully integrated public affairs, lobbying and communication agency are partners of this year`s Healthcare Forum.
Healthcare 2010 Awards
Following closely the evolution of the sector and its struggle with the lack of finance, Forum Invest brought into the spotlight outstanding initiatives that could serve as an example for the entire sector.
For their contribution to supporting the decentralization process through an efficient financial management Ilie Bolojan, Mayor of Oradea, Bihor county, Gheorghe Flutur, President of the City Council , Suceava and Borboly Csaba, President of the City Council Harghita were granted by Forum Invest with the Healthcare 2010 Awards. A special Award was granted to Dan Mircea Enescu, Director of the Children Hospital “Grigore Alexandrescu” for the professionalism and dedication proved at managing the crisis provoked by the recent fire at the Giulesti Maternity in Bucharest.
For the past 5 years, the International Healthcare Forum has been established as the most important event of the healthcare sector taking place in Romania and the most powerful and efficient communication platform between private and public actors within the industry.
Conference overview
The most prominent stakeholders from the local and the international healthcare sector have gathered this year on 27th and 28th of September in Bucharest for the 5th edition of the
Healthcare International Forum 2010 - Policies and Business Mechanisms in European Healthcare Systems.
Over 200 representatives of the international health organizations (French Health Economics Society, France, Private Hospital Association, Poland, Generic Pharmaceutical Industry Association, United States of America), state officials, CEOs of major healthcare companies, including pharmaceuticals, private insurers, banks, IT&C, consultancy and law firms, professional associations of physicians and pharmacists have debated over the critical issues of the healthcare system trying to deliver solutions, generate cooperation frameworks and outline new development directions for quality healthcare provision.
More than
30 speakers from Romania, Austria, Poland, USA, France, UK, Germany and Scotland debated over how to balance the deficits within the system by shifting from public to private in healthcare, mechanisms for supplementing funds within the system, the public-private partnership as an alternative solution of financing the system and the private healthcare insurance as a solution to retrieve the financial pressure within the system.
The Healthcare International Forum 2010 also benefited from the support of 17 partners, some of the most important players from the domestic healthcare industry.
Astra Asigurari - one of the largest insurers from the domestic market,
Amgen - world's largest independent biotech company,
Cegedim, the most important provider of analysis and market studies for the pharmaceutical industry from Romania, Centrul Medical Unirea - top player from private medical services market ,
Antibiotice Iasi - the largest Romanian producer of medicines,
Ipsen - a global biopharmaceutical group,
Roche - one of the world's leading healthcare companies,
GE Healthcare- medical technologies and services,
Fildas - top player on the local pharmaceutical market, Catena - chain of pharmacies, part of Fildas Trading, Banca Transilvania- one of the top ten banks from Romania and
Point Public Affairs - a fully integrated public affairs, lobbying and communication agency are partners of this year`s Healthcare Forum.
Healthcare 2010 Awards
Following closely the evolution of the sector and its struggle with the lack of finance, Forum Invest brought into the spotlight outstanding initiatives that could serve as an example for the entire sector.
For their contribution to supporting the decentralization process through an efficient financial management
Ilie Bolojan, Mayor of Oradea, Bihor county,
Gheorghe Flutur, President of the City Council , Suceava and
Borboly Csaba, President of the City Council Harghita were granted by Forum Invest with the
Healthcare 2010 Awards. A special Award was granted to
Dan Mircea Enescu, Director of the Children Hospital "Grigore Alexandrescu" for the professionalism and dedication proved at managing the crisis provoked by the recent fire at the Giulesti Maternity in Bucharest.
For the past 5 years, the International Healthcare Forum has been established as the most important event of the healthcare sector taking place in Romania and the most powerful and efficient communication platform between private and public actors within the industry. "Minister of Health for a day" campaign
Submit your opinions here
Dumitru Lupuliasa
President, Romanian College of Pharmacists
If I were the Health Minister for a day, I would first act for the recovery and elimination of the debts in the system until 2011 and then introduce the European directives on strengthening contractual discipline (payment terms not longer than 30 days) for the public authorities - intentionally omitted – into ontractual stipulations. Shifting the responsibility and the liability of the National Health Insurance House under the authority of the Prime Minister, as well for other public institutions (i.e. the National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Authority) and shifting decision power from the President of the National Health Insurance House (who is appointed solely on political criteria), to the Administration Board, are two other important measures to be taken.
Dragos Damian
CEO, Terapia Ranbaxy, Romania
The first measures I would take as Minister of Health would be suspend the payment of the state health insurances to the employees followed by introducing the private health insurance system, privatization of hospitals through the MEBO method, introducing informatics, acting for the re-allocation of the resources to the primary medicine.
Andrei Dudoiu
Executive Director, Banca Transilvania, Romania
If I would find myself in the position of Minister of Health, I would first implement the private health insurance system and create the operational framework for the public - private partnerships in the healthcare system. Other important measures to be taken are: legislate a minimal budget for the health system, as a percentage of the GDP valid for each budgetary year, as the minimum guaranteed by law, definine the minimum set of health services for the state social insurances and I would implement the co-payment system. Also I would act for the the efficiency and transparency of the hospital reform: closing, resizing, relocation / consolidation, transfer to the local administrations, transfer / cooperation with the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection for social cases, outsourcing of the administrative services.
Ovidiu Racoveanu
Life Insurance Manager, Generali Insurance, Romania
If I were the Health Minister for a day, I would reduce the standard healthcare services package; these measures must be endorsed by a much better control of the budgetary funds spending, grant tax deductions for private health insurances and act for the privatization or encourage the public-private partnerships for several of the hospitals. Also I would increase doctors` salaries and of the medical staff, by retaining full non-budgetary revenues in hospitals and distribute them as incentives to the health staff. In a later stage, I would support a "privatization" of the minimum health package, with the development of a strong private sector, under the conditions that some benefits for the budget could be supported (i.e. much better cost control).
Horia Cristian
Member of the Family and Health Commission, Chamber of Deputies, Parliament of Romania
We must finalize as soon as possible the minimum medical services package to pave the way for private health insurance.
Daniela Gheorghe
Life Insurance Director, Certasig, Romania
It is imperative to introduce co-payment but it is also vital to reform hospital management the ineffectiveness of which is close to ridiculous.
Marian Ghinescu
Health Division Director, Siemens Romania
The Romanian healthcare system needs structural changes along with a long cycle of constantly adapted feed-back given by the market.
Ionela Misculescu
Managing Director, BT Medical Leasing, Romania
It is necessary to create a legislative framework that encourages public-private partnerships, to implement a private health insurance system, to define the minimum medical services package, to introduce co-payment and to reform hospitals.
Petru Craciun
Managing Director, CEGEDIM, Romania
Investors who have placed their money in the Romanian healthcare system should be treated with more decency.
Bojan Jagodic
Managing Director, Novartis, Romania
The dysfunctions in the Romanian healthcare system cannot be resolved as long as a medium-term strategy doesn’t even exist.
Catalin Popa
Executive Director, Euroclinic, Romania
In order to improve the Romanian healthcare system, the first measure to take would be to implement co-payment and private health insurance services and then to aggressively promote private investment in the system.
Robert Popescu
CEO, A&D Pharma, Romania
What the healthcare system requires right now is a lot of transparency and more efficiency in spending money from the national health fund, as well as more aggressive measures for Romanian hospitals to reach a minimum level of economic efficiency.
Solutions for Restructuring the Healthcare System
Geza Molnar
Personal Adviser for the Minister of Health, Romania
In order to improve the situation in the healthcare system, strong discipline is firstly needed at all levels. This discipline should be founded on both the existing legislation as well as on working protocols and setting responsibilities within the system. At the moment, unfortunately, we often witness a type of organization and functioning of services within medical units which does not take into account the main issue: the meeting of patient needs. It is also important to restructure the financing of the system.
Daniela Bartos
Former Minister of Health, Romania
Fund allocation within the system must be rethought as we are already in a free fall towards the bottom of the slope. Those who suffer most from the government’s inconsitency of opinions are the patients, regarding both quality of medical care and free access to medical services and medication.
Marius Savu
Director, Administration of Hospitals and Medical Services,Bucharest City Hall
We should not be afraid to start thinking that the healthcare system cannot survive as an entirely public system, financed from a languishing budget. As in other west European countries we should accept the fact that the private component should exist within the public system. I’m not talking about complementary or parallel systems, but of the involvement of private funds in the public system.
Adina Geana
President, National Health Insurance Organization, Romania
I would look more carefully and I would rearrange the whole range of regulations which establishes and defines the obligations and the limit of competence for all big participants: The Ministry, the National Health Insurance Organization, professional associations. Unfortunately, these things we diluted and very much lost in the past 2-3 years. These entities do not know very well their responsibilities and competencies, and least of all put them into practice. ‘
Marina Otelea
Managing Director, Medicover, Romania
I would improve the communication by saying exactly what we can cover and what not. I would try to find certain means to truly attract extra funding into the system and I would significantly invest in training personnel to manage the administrative system. These issues should be mentioned and supported in communicating the priorities in the authorities’ agenda.
