The categories and topics are defined within the 10 areas of activity covered by the OpinioNet. All OpinioNet participants are invited to propose topics!

Jour-fixe gatherings are organized on a regular basis and are attended, in principle, by the same group of participants. The purpose is to meet regularly and exchange opinions and ideas. Jour-fixe gatherings organized within the framework of the Secon Opinion Network tend to include a small group of people, i.e. the number of participants is usually limited. It is an interactive event, i.e. all participants are allowed to join the discussion.

A meeting is not characterized by regularity. It can be a one-time or a recurring event. The purpose of a meeting is acquisition of new knowledge. The topics change and the number of participants is, in principle, unlimited. The meeting format depends on the number of participants. If the number of participants is large, such meeting is called a lecture. Although interactive participation is possible, it may be limited.

The schedule includes meetings/lectures allowing a limited number of participants and those at which the number of participants is not limited. Possibilities of participation, including the number of participants, will be announced in advance. Different subscription packages come with different event access possibilities.

Any adult person or legal subject can choose to become a subscriber of their own free will, regardless of their residence or knowledge of foreign languages.

To become a subscriber, one must apply via this website and pay a fee defined for the program actively selected in the application process. The status of a subscriber is approved or revoked under the Second Opinion Network General Subscription Terms and Conditions.

No. Subscription covers the use of contents in Croatian, German and English. Subscribers to regular programs can use any of the programs in any of the available languages.

Requests for special translations are possible, and will be approved or rejected according to the circumstances of the case.

The Organizer will not assume the obligation to post contents in all languages!

Your subscription includes certain translation services. If a subscriber expresses an interest for a particular meeting or lecture held in a language he/she doesn’t understand, we will try to provide translation in a suitable format.

The number of events that you can attend depends on the selected subscription package.

It is possible to arrange participation beyond the package limit.

The OpinioNet serves to support families whose members live far away from one another and deals with the impact and consequences of illness and old age within families and the interactions between families and institutions!

Apart from the medical staff (physicians, nurses, physiotherapists, lab workers, caretakers, etc.) and professions closely related to health (pharmacists, psychologists, nutritionists, etc.), real life includes numerous other professionals – translators/interpreters and mediators, tax advisors and accountants, architects/designers and engineers, service providers/handymen of various profiles, lawyers and notaries, social workers and public servants. Cleaning staff and neighbors who are at hand and ready to help are unjustifiably named at the end of the list. They, in fact, have a key role. We will therefore devote particular attention and program sections to them!

It is impossible to list all situations, i.e. all professionals for which the need may arise during one’s lifetime. We have no intention of providing a comprehensive list of professionals, but we will maintain on our website a list of professionals already within our network, and we will update it to include the newly hired ones.

In the past 30 years of operation, the Organizer has cooperated with over 800 different business entities in various countries. The programs envisaged under the OpinioNet will initially be carried out in cooperation with the existing network of professionals with proven expertise.

In our daily activities we may come across other professionals that we may invite to join us – a kind of passive selection process.

If there are certain requests or questions to which we are unable to provide answers relying on our existing network, we will try and find other professionals within the limits of available resources.

Online and live communication channels allow a simple and quick access to our network and services of various professionals in more than 20 countries!

A transdisciplinary approach is important because it allows various professionals to work on a single case/problem without even knowing each other, exchanging information or being familiar with the whole situation.

Example 1: You have fallen ill. Your diagnosis is made by a physician. Your bathroom and kitchen need remodeling because of your illness. If you are located abroad, a translator will translate your medical report. The translation is delivered to your insurance company by the post office. Your insurance company decides whether to approve your claim or not. A nurse makes a house call on you. You hire an architect to design the necessary adjustments. Various service providers perform the relevant adjustments. You go on living with your illness.

Each of the above-mentioned professionals does his part independently from others. Your diagnosis is not relevant for the work performed by the translator. Your physician has no interest in knowing how you will access your bathroom or cook. The insurance company does not care which or how many physicians have examined you. The various service providers working on your home adjustments do not need to know that you are ill at all.

Example 2: You have decided to take a vacation. The travel agency has provided you with the information regarding your travelling and accommodation arrangements, as well as regarding the offer of recreational activities and entertainment events in the destination. You and your friend select the clothes you will bring with you, or your mom packs your suitcase for you. The agency does not have the information about who has packed your clothes, and your mom does not always need to know where you’re going!

Interdisciplinarity is an approach in which information is exchanged between professionals from two or more fields who are familiar with the whole situation.

Example 1: If you need to install holders on your bathroom walls, three professionals must work together: an architect, a physiotherapist and an engineer. The physiotherapist knows where the holders should be installed, the architect knows how firmly they should be installed, whereas the engineer knows how the holders should be installed depending on the surface.

Example 2: When you want to change the appearance of the area around your house, your landscape artist will tell you what would look nice and fit well into your yard and garden. The agronomist will tell you what plants can thrive in the soil found in your yard, and the agricultural pharmacist will advise you on substances you can use to improve the quality of the soil.

Havatar is a word created as a combination of the words health (a person’s mental or physical condition) and avatar (a graphical representation of a user hiding his true identity applied in the IT world).

In preparing the OpinioNet, we have devoted particular attention to protection of personal information and identity of our subscribers.

Havatar is an e-mail address with the health-benefits domain which is generated once and exclusively for each user. It allows the user to log into all programs anonymously. Subscribers reveal their true identities only if they wish to do so.

The innovative identity protection method (Havatar) allows the subscribers to choose the option to participate in communication completely anonymously.