Consultancy

VANJA PAJIC, 

Senior HEALTHCARE POLICY Consultant

Vanja Pajic is an independent healthcare consultant with over 15 years’ experience in health informatics, digital healthcare delivery and EU legislation in healthcare IT. He combines clinical and public-health insight with technical and legal expertise - specialising in standards-based interoperability (EEHRxF, IHE/HL7, FHIR/CDA), GDPR/eIDAS/MDR/CRA/EHDS compliance and vendor-ready requirements. He currently coordinates EU Member State activity for cross-border digital health implementation projects and advises Member State ministries and eHealth agencies, as well as WHO and EU bodies on policy-to-implementation delivery. 

WORK EXPERIENCE:

• Consultant under Emergency Conditions for the World Health Organization, in charge of facilitating the implementation of digital COVID certificates in 53 WHO Member States in the European Region, from the Atlantic coast all the way to the Pacific ocean.

• Policy advisor for the European eHealth Digital Service Infrastructure, the most ambitious project in EU cross-border healthcare led by Member States and the European Commission: currently coordinating multinational medical, legal and technical teams in 27 EU + EEA/EFTA countries.

• Former chair and founding member of the EU eHealth Member State Expert Group and the Member State Legal Work Group, in charge of implementing and deploying cross-border eHealth services: ePrescription and Patient Summary.

• One of the authors of the European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format, the European Hospital Discharge Report and Lab Results Report, ePrescription and Patient Summary.

• Project Manager for the Croatian Health Insurance Fund and the Croatian Institute of Public Health, coordinator for the National Healthcare Strategy 2012-2020 at the Croatian Ministry of Health.

EDUCATION:

• Semmelweis University, PhD in Health Sciences

• University of London, Master of Cyber Security

• University of Law London, Master of Laws (LLM) 

• Imperial College London, Faculty of Medicine (Global Master of Public Health)

• Oxford University (Advanced Diploma in IT Systems Analysis and Design)

• School of Medicine, University of Zagreb (PhD in Biomedicine and Medical Sciences, Univ. Master of Leadership and Management of Healthcare Services, Univ. Master of Public Health)

• COTRUGLI Business School (Master of Business Administration, MBA)

• Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (Univ. Master of Philosophy, Univ. Master of Anthropology, Univ. Master of Philosophy of Education)

PROFESSIONAL SPECIALIZATIONS IN HEALTHCARE IT:

• MIT (Global Health Informatics);

• Harvard University ( Improving Global Health - Quality and Safety):

• University of Rotterdam (Cybersecurity in Healthcare);

• University of Michigan (Data Science Ethics);

• Johns Hopkins University (Health Informatics Specialization, Data Science Specialization);

• University of Maryland (Cybersecurity Specialization);

• University of Colorado, System (Applied Cryptography Specialization);

• University of California, Irvine (Blockchain Specialization);

• University of California, Davis (Healthcare Data Quality and Governance, Healthcare Data Literacy, Healthcare Data Models);

• University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (Regulatory Compliance Specialization);

• Deeplearning AI (AI for Medicine Specialization);

• Lund University (AI and Law)

IBM CERTIFICATIONS:

• IBM AI Engineering Specialization, 

• IBM AI Developer Professional.

• IBM Machine Learning Professional Certificate.

• IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificate.

• IBM Data Scientist Professional Certificate.

• IBM Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate.

• IBM Ethical Hacking.

COVID-19 CERTIFICATIONS:

•  Johns Hopkins University (COVID-19 Contact Tracing, Measuring and Maximizing Impact of COVID-19 Contact Tracing)

• Stanford University (COVID-19 Training for Healthcare Workers)

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Managing Supply Chain Disruption During COVID19)

• University of Houston (Population Health During A Pandemic - Contact Tracing and Beyond)

ISO STANDARD AND REGULATORY CERTIFICATIONS:

•  ISO 9001-2015 - Quality Management System (QMS)

• ISO 13485-2016 - Quality Management Systems for Medical Devices (MD QMS)

• ISO 22000-2018 - Food Safety Management System (FSMS)

• ISO 22301-2019 - Business Continuity Management Systems (BCMS)

• ISO 45001-2018 - Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (OHS)

• ISO IEC 27001 - Information Security Management System (ISMS)

• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

• European Medical Device Regulations (EU MDR)

RELEVANT PROJECTS:

• European Commission (CEF Telecom Call - eHealth Digital Service Infrastructure (CEFTC-2017-2) MyHealth@EU, 2017-ongoing; Extended EHR@EU Data Space for Primary Use (Xt-EHR), 2023-2026; 3rd Joint Action to support the eHealth Network eHAction, 2018-2019; 2nd Joint Action to support the eHealth Network (JAseHN), 2015-2017; EXPAND: Deploying sustainable cross-border eHealth services in the EU, 2014-2015; Patient Registries Initiative Joint Action (PARENT JA), 2012-2015).

• World Health Organization (WHO) (Digital Documentation of COVID-19 Certificates / Smart Vaccination Certificate (SVC),  2021-ongoing; Assessing and reporting the impact of digitalization and digital proximity tracing on national contact tracing programmes in Eastern Partnership and Western Balkan countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021).

• Horizon 2020 (X-eHealth: Prototyping a European interoperable Electronic Health Record (EHR) exchange, 2020-2022; Assess-CT: Assessing SNOMED CT for Large Scale eHealth Deployments in the EU, 2015-2016).

• International Twinning programmes (Transition Facility for Ensuring the Optimal Health Care for People with Mental Health Problems, 2015-2018).

• Croatian Ministry of Health (eMedicines, eHospitals, eDRG, eClinicalPathways, 2015-2017; National public health system for managing healthcare registries – NAJS, 2013-2015.

• World Bank (Croatian Health Business Intelligence System with GIS module - CHBIS-GIS, 2012-2013).