Welcome to the second episode of the Digi4Care podcast — on the financing and health policy side of digitally transforming healthcare across the Danube Region.

Digital transformation in healthcare needs more than good technology. It needs sustainable financing, smart regulation and policies that actually let new tools reach patients. In this episode we sit down with three guests who live and breathe these questions to ask: why is reimbursement so slow for digital tools, what regulatory and ethical gaps hold the region back, and how can countries with very different health systems align enough to move forward together? We map the biggest financial barriers to scaling digital solutions in the Danube Region — limited reimbursement pathways, fragmented national systems, slow regulatory processes, uneven digital maturity — and then turn to what  ...