AmCham meeting with the Minister of Health

AmCham representatives said that the quality of patient treatment outcomes is in the focus of the healthcare systems which are striving for quality and cost efficiency. Moreover, the data on treatment outcomes represents the foundation for the informed decisions on investing healthcare budget funds into the most effective and efficient medicines, medical devices and equipment. They emphasized that introduction of quality registries can lighten the pressures on the healthcare budget, pension system and state budget, increase the quality of life of the population and reduce the disability and mortality rates.

AmCham welcomes the efforts of the Ministry of Health in creation of quality registries and calls for their prompt introduction in order to accomplish significant improvements in the treatment quality of the diseases which are largest burden and leading causes of death in the country such as ischemic heart diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, lung and bowel cancer and diabetes.

Public procurement in healthcare, digitalization of certain processes of Croatian Health Insurance Fond as well as the growing debt to medical suppliers were also discussed at the meeting with the Minister of Health.