Who are the key stakeholders?

Our key stakeholders are public institutions, healthcare providers, academia, researchers, EHR vendors and startups.

What are the main objectives of your ecosystem?

Our objectives as an ecosystem are:

• Promote Interoperability and Standards.
• Ensure that health data and IT systems across Slovakia can exchange information seamlessly.
• Advocate for adoption of international standards such as HL7 FHIR to enable cross-border and national data sharing.
• Support Digital Health Transformation.
• Facilitate the implementation of digital health tools, telemedicine, and eHealth services.
• Accelerate the modernization of healthcare delivery and patient-centric services.
• Foster Collaboration Across Stakeholders.
• Bring together government institutions, healthcare providers, academia, industry, and researchers.
• Enable knowledge sharing, joint projects, and best practices for digital health initiatives.
• Engage in European and Global Initiatives.
• Represent Slovakia in initiatives like the European Health Data Space (EHDS).
• Align national strategies with EU regulations and international standards.
• Promote Education and Awareness.
• Provide training, workshops, and guidance on digital health, data governance, and cybersecurity.
• Raise awareness of the benefits, challenges, and opportunities in digital healthcare.
• Enable Data-Driven Health Innovation.
• Support secondary use of health data for research, public health, and policy-making.
• Foster innovation in AI, analytics, and predictive healthcare technologies.

Why do you want to join the Global Health Connector Network of Ecosystems?

Digital Health Slovakia seeks to join the Global Health Connector network to strengthen international collaboration, knowledge exchange, and partnership opportunities with peer ecosystems worldwide. We are particularly interested in building global connections for interoperability testing, cross-border data exchange pilots, and validation of digital health solutions in real-world settings.

Participation would enable us to co-develop joint initiatives, share best practices, contribute to international policy discussions, and connect Slovak stakeholders with global innovation leaders. We also aim to support collaborative research projects, capacity-building activities, and multi-country projects that advance safe, scalable, and standards-based digital health systems.

Who is missing from your ecosystem in terms of stakeholders?

We aim to further engage international healthcare providers, global standards organisations, regulatory authorities, patient advocacy groups, health insurers, and industry partners specialising in advanced analytics and cross-border digital health services. Strengthening participation from these stakeholders would enhance real-world testing, validation, and scaling of interoperable solutions.

Which ecosystems are you looking to collaborate with?

We are interested in collaborating with ecosystems focused on digital health interoperability, health data spaces, AI in healthcare, telemedicine, public health analytics, and cross-border health data exchange. Priority is given to partners experienced in international interoperability testing, standards implementation, regulatory sandboxes, and multi-country pilot deployments, as well as ecosystems working on global health innovation, capacity building, and digital health infrastructure development.