István Bordás

He was a prominent representative and one of the founders of Hungarian healthcare informatics. When a model experiment began at Szekszárd Hospital in 1975, Dr. Gyula Szentgáli, the director general, invited him to join his staff. A solution that had not existed in Hungary before had to be developed on an R-10 computer: a hospital information system. He first became the head of the operations department and then the deputy head of the Documentation and Information Center (DIK), which was established and operated with ministerial funds for this task. The DIK later became the county healthcare informatics center.

In 1987, he was the deputy director of the Medical Care Information Center ( Gyógyinfok ) in Szekszárd, and then from 1990 (until its closure) the director. Building on the county's health data, the first cost structure study of the Hungarian health care system began here. This project - which he was the director of from 1990 - became one of the foundations of the later health care reform. Initially, targeted data collection was carried out in 10, and soon 28 hospitals, which laid the foundation for the development of the Homogeneous Disease Groups (HBCS) system and other performance financing elements. As a result of his working method, the HBCS system was successfully introduced in active patient care in 1993 (the second in the world after the United States).

For a while, he was also the president of the Health Informatics Professional College.

In recognition of his work, the Hungarian National Academy of Sciences awarded him the Neumann Prize in 1992.