“Good ideas alone will not transform European healthcare.”

Voices from the Data2Value Executive Dialogue: Jordi Piera, CEO, openEHR International.

The missing piece in European healthcare innovation, as argued by Jordi Piera, CEO of openEHR International, is the shared digital foundation that would allow promising ideas to move from isolated implementations into widespread adoption.

The diagnosis is precise. Without a common digital public infrastructure for health, every scaling effort starts from scratch. Systems that cannot interoperate cannot share solutions. And solutions that cannot be shared cannot become mainstream.

“We have very good ideas all across Europe – but the problem is associated with the lack of a common digital public infrastructure for health.”

The argument is not that more ideas are needed. It is that the structural conditions for those ideas to travel do not yet exist at the scale required. This is a challenge that no single institution or country can resolve alone. It requires collective investment in the shared foundations that make interoperability, data exchange, and cross-border scaling not just possible – but routine.

Because without common infrastructure, even the best ideas remain local.

Jordi Piera is CEO of openEHR International and a participant in the Data2Value Executive Dialogue, Copenhagen, May 18, 2026.