The Minister of Health spoke about the revolution brought by Artificial Intelligence (AI) in our country. Adonis Georgiadis From the step of the “Second European Business Summit” organized by Economist in Athens.
As he pointed out, digitization in health has made great progress in recent years, and only gov.gr, he said, is a huge positive change in the lives of Greeks.
«Unfortunately we have an innate tendency to see the negatives. The truth is that in 2025 Greece is much better than it was a few years ago as it is today one of the three most advanced digital countries in the EU in terms of health“, Emphasized the Minister of Health. Referring specifically to digital health applications, he spoke of universal electronic prescription which now reaches 100% of the recipes. As he said with intangible prescription, “we control all the data and collect a lot of them, helping to create a register for several diseases.” As he typically said, when you know how many are taking medication for diabetes in Greece, you know how many these patients are.
Referring to the application My Health, he said that it is already making the lives of Greeks easier than health services.
“On their mobile, in their hands, they have a complete medical folder, which contains all their diagnostic tests, the medicines they receive, the interventions they have made and the ability of this application to make an appointment with a doctor.
We have reduced the year from two months to 48 hours to wait for an appointment to an EOPYY doctor, he said and added: “There are no such services in Europe if one may exclude Estonia.
At the beginning of 2026, when the whole project will be completed on the tracing of patients in on -call on -call, each patient will know which hospital would be best to reach out to any emergency, he added.
But all of this is not only aid to the citizen, the Minister of Health said but also control the costs of the state, enabling them to place funds in other areas of health that are necessary.
THE A. Georgiadis talking about artificial intelligence He said that Greece has been selected among 7 European countries to install an artificial intelligence plant and as he said “the supercomputer of Daedalus already begins”.
In fact, he predicted that the greatest growth industry due to artificial intelligence would be the health industry, as the genome control will lead to personalization of new treatments for patients.
“We are talking about a revolution with AI and finally for once we will be one of the pioneers in the world in this unprecedented change,” he said.
Speaking about businesses, the Minister of Health said the chambers need to explain artificial intelligence to small and medium -sized enterprises and encourage them to apply it to evolve and survive. “We aim to be one of the first and not the last in the New World. These new digital tools also allow small businesses to compete with the big ones. “
In terms of jobs, he concluded by saying that it should not be scared by the possibility that artificial intelligence will replace man but we should think that he will create new jobs as man is called upon to do different work in the near future.