Prim. Dorijan Marušič, MD, a specialist in internal medicine, MSc., was medical director of the General hospital Izola, State Secretary at the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Slovenia, adviser to the Director-General of the Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia and Minister of Health of the Republic of Slovenia. He was a member of the Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health at DG SANCO and recently became a member of the National Observatory at the Ministry of Health in Luxemburg. He achieved a master’s degree at the Faculty of Social Sciences with the theme “Measuring the outcomes of health services”. He has been involved in several national and international projects in the health care and health insurance system, payment methods, quality improvement, national data standardisation and health informatics. He teaches at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Primorska. He is widely published and quoted in renowned scientific journals and publications.