{"id":5252,"date":"2025-10-03T19:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ai4healthcro.eu\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=5252"},"modified":"2025-12-23T19:09:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:09:23","slug":"healthtech-adria-2025-ai4health-cros-anja-baresic-on-what-it-really-takes-to-get-ai-into-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/ai4healthcro.eu\/?ht_kb=healthtech-adria-2025-ai4health-cros-anja-baresic-on-what-it-really-takes-to-get-ai-into-hospitals","title":{"rendered":"Healthtech Adria 2025: AI4Health.Cro\u2019s Anja Bare\u0161i\u0107 on what it really takes to get AI into hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5252\" class=\"elementor elementor-5252\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-13797c4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"13797c4\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3621d2d\" data-id=\"3621d2d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-602341d elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"602341d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/ai4healthcro.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NASLOVNA-FOTOGRAFIJA-1024x640.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-5256\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ai4healthcro.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NASLOVNA-FOTOGRAFIJA-1024x640.webp 1024w, https:\/\/ai4healthcro.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NASLOVNA-FOTOGRAFIJA-300x188.webp 300w, https:\/\/ai4healthcro.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NASLOVNA-FOTOGRAFIJA-768x480.webp 768w, https:\/\/ai4healthcro.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NASLOVNA-FOTOGRAFIJA-50x31.webp 50w, https:\/\/ai4healthcro.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NASLOVNA-FOTOGRAFIJA-1536x960.webp 1536w, https:\/\/ai4healthcro.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NASLOVNA-FOTOGRAFIJA.webp 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1f95973 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1f95973\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-24fd18b\" data-id=\"24fd18b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5885495 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5885495\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>At the <strong>second edition of the Healthtech Adria Conference<\/strong>, held <strong>2\u20133 October 2025<\/strong> at the <strong>University of Split School of Medicine<\/strong>, AI4Health.Cro joined a packed room of clinicians, founders, innovators, and ecosystem builders to talk about one thing that matters: moving from promising AI demos to tools that survive real clinical workflows.<\/p>\n<p>Co-organised by <strong>NetHub<\/strong> and the <strong>University of Split School of Medicine<\/strong>, the two-day event gathered <strong>300+ participants<\/strong> and <strong>30 speakers<\/strong> from Croatia and abroad, with a strong focus on digital health, medical technologies, and biopharma\u2014where adoption depends on evidence, integration, and trust.<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cAI shouldn\u2019t be used everywhere\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>During a roundtable on AI in healthcare, <strong>Dr. Anja Bare\u0161i\u0107<\/strong>, AI4Health.Cro project coordinator, put the core principle on the table:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAI shouldn\u2019t be used everywhere. Every innovation must prove it\u2019s better than humans for a clearly defined task.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr. Bare\u0161i\u0107 shared the stage with <strong>Jayden K., Ivan Bili\u0161kov, PhD, and Jovan Stevovic<\/strong>, pushing the discussion away from hype and toward the practical choices that determine whether a product is safe, useful, and adoptable.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Founder-grade takeaways from the roundtable<\/h3>\n<p>What came through clearly (and repeatedly) is that \u201cgreat model\u201d is not the finish line:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Start from clinical needs, not feature ideas.<\/strong> The gap between what startups want to build and what clinicians actually need is still one of the biggest failure modes.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t do AI \u201cbecause we can.\u201d<\/strong> Novelty doesn\u2019t translate to adoption unless it solves a specific, owned problem.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Educate clinicians to unlock better questions.<\/strong> When doctors understand what AI is (and isn\u2019t), they demand evidence and benchmarks\u2014and they\u2019re right to.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Translate metrics into clinical logic.<\/strong> F1 and ROC don\u2019t map to care decisions by default; clinicians need strengths\/limitations, failure modes, and \u201cfor which patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Own your comparators.<\/strong> Define the right benchmark, report clearly, and let medical experts judge fitness-for-use.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>AI4Health.Cro: building the path from idea to impact<\/h3>\n<p>Anja also shared what AI4Health.Cro is seeing \u201con the ground\u201d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>\u201cIn the last 2.5 years, we\u2019ve supported <strong>30+ users<\/strong> on a personalised digitalisation path from idea to market.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Seven AI\/health-tech solutions are currently being tested<\/strong> in Croatian hospitals and other healthcare facilities, with structured feedback from clinicians to ensure products fit real workflows.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is exactly where AI4Health.Cro focuses: validation, testing, and implementation readiness\u2014not just model performance.<\/p>\n<h3>Where AI4Health.Cro helps teams move faster (and safer)<\/h3>\n<p>AI4Health.Cro\u2019s <strong>Test-before-Invest<\/strong> approach is designed for early validation in real environments, so teams can learn early, de-risk development, and avoid expensive \u201cwrong assumptions.\u201d. The hub also supports companies and public entities with services spanning testing, ecosystem connections, and go-to-market readiness in healthcare.&nbsp;<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the second edition of the Healthtech Adria Conference, held 2\u20133 October 2025 at the University of Split School of Medicine, AI4Health.Cro joined a packed room of clinicians, founders, innovators, and ecosystem builders to talk about one thing that matters: moving from promising AI demos to tools that survive real clinical workflows. Co-organised by NetHub &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ai4healthcro.eu\/?ht_kb=healthtech-adria-2025-ai4health-cros-anja-baresic-on-what-it-really-takes-to-get-ai-into-hospitals\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Healthtech Adria 2025: AI4Health.Cro\u2019s Anja Bare\u0161i\u0107 on what it really takes to get AI into hospitals<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[30],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-5252","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-events-and-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ai4healthcro.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/5252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ai4healthcro.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ai4healthcro.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ai4healthcro.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ai4healthcro.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ai4healthcro.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/5252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5259,"href":"https:\/\/ai4healthcro.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/5252\/revisions\/5259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ai4healthcro.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ai4healthcro.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fht-kb-category&post=5252"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ai4healthcro.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fht-kb-tag&post=5252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}