Clinical work is serious business, and doctors need all of the resources they can get.

Sometimes, national health care systems can seem chaotic, and some doctors find it hard to network and build supports for their work. The rapid changes inherent in the medical world can put pressure on health care professionals.

Among Doctors is trying to help doctors feel more empowered to handle the modern world of health care by promoting the idea of medicine as a “team sport.” This early-stage digital startup is creating a key network service for physicians and health care professionals.

Among Doctors founder and CEO Elena Barla spoke to Balkan Business Wire about the mission of the company and how it's moving forward.

“Networking among physicians … is broken,” Barla said. “Doctors use limited offline networks, costly medical conferences and/or exposed social media in order to network, share knowledge and exchange opinions. Among Doctors solves this by providing a revolutionary global networking and collaboration platform, exclusive only to licensed physicians, which helps them connect and work with reliable colleagues of all specialties across the globe in a secure and relevant way.”

Other challenges include a global physician shortage as recorded by the World Health Organization, as well as issues with physician burnout and the poor quality of care in some systems, Barla said.

"On one hand, many hospitals and medical centers cannot meet their personnel needs, even in developed countries, while on the other hand, many doctors cannot find work in their country and wish to develop their career abroad, where they have better opportunities,” Barla said. “We help both ends to solve this, by providing a reliable and effective way for both employers and doctors to address their hiring needs, and connecting international institutions with a targeted, verified and highly engaged international community of doctors.”

Barla said although Among Doctors is spread out across Europe, it has major operations in Greece, where the company was incubated at the Microsoft Innovation Center. She cited a large community of quality medical professionals there.

“Greece offers … a large pool of highly skilled professionals in a less expensive context compared to other European countries,” Barla said.

As for the future, Barla said Among Doctors hopes to leverage extensive growth to keep on focusing on what the medical industry needs.