BBJ - Budapest Business Journal

This new facility is a strategic move to support growing demand in the pharmaceutical industry, particularly for vaccines, biologic therapies, and the so-called glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) medications. Balázs Károly Vizi, head of regional operations...

A recent quiz that went viral on social media in Hungary challenged users to guess whether the photos shown to them one by one depicted a Hungarian hospital or a building in Chernobyl. In most cases, it was impossible to tell. Indeed, Steven Spielberg...

Annually, the group conducts more than half a million doctor-patient consultations. Nationwide, Doktor24 operates 11 operating rooms in eight hospitals and clinics, with 70 beds and 120 outpatient and diagnostic specialty clinics.
For two decades, Doktor24 has ensured its clients receive essential examinations and treatments as quickly as possible. The group was the first in Hungary to introduce an artificial intelligence-based patient triage and symptom search system....

BBJ: FirstMed opened in Hungary in 1999. What were the main difficulties setting up the business here then?
Dennis Diokno: We started the project in Hungary in 1998 and decided to invest here because these were times of change, of rules being rewritten. In Western and Southern Europe, the rules were set, and the bureaucracy has been the same for 50 or 100...