Voices of Innovation - Europe Fulfilling the Promise of Healthcare Technology

1. Blend Cultures

England | Integrating Hospitals, Community and Digital Teams—Why Culture—Not Technology—Determines the Success of European Healthcare Innovation | by Mladen Milovanovic

Finland | Organizational Innovation: Building Successful Teams in Finland’s Complex Health and Social Care Landscape | by Anniina Mustikkamaa and Robbie Harlow

Germany | Surmounting the Organizational Immune System: A Tale from the Trenches, or the Hangover After the Party: Why “Innovation Theater” Dies in the Transfer Gap (and How to Actually Win) | by Jasmin Saric

UK | NHS Blended Clinical and Data Cultures to Scale AI Imaging | by Edward W. Marx, Sakshika Dhingra, Aline Noizet and Aditi U. Joshi

Germany and Switzerland | Driving Healthcare Innovation Across Germany and Switzerland: The pt ehealth GmbH Experience with KHZG FTB, EAM Evaluation, and KIS Standard | by Tatjana Parmakovic with Felix Penner

Germany | Adding Wheels to a Stationary System—How Germany’s Mobile Dental Innovation Reached a Generation Left Behind | by Tobias Lippek

Russia | National Medical Research Center for Hematology | by Edward W. Marx

2. Use People in IT

Portugal | People-Centered Digital Health Innovation in Portugal and the Azores | by Sakshika Dhingra

Romania | Balancing Tech and Training in Romanian Telemedicine | by Aditi U. Joshi

Europe | What Emergencies Reveal About Human Capacity in Highly Optimized Healthcare Systems | by Mergime Gerguri

Sweden | Holding the Line: How Karolinska University Hospital Balanced Human Judgment and AI in Clinical Diagnostics | by Sakshika Dhingra, Edward W. Marx, Aditi U. Joshi and Aline Noizet

Estonia | Digital by Design: How Tartu University Hospital Proved That Technology Works Best When People Stay in Control | by Sakshika Dhingra, Edward W. Marx, Aditi U. Joshi and Aline Noizet

Germany | Augment, Not Replace: How Charité Berlin Used AI to Support Clinical Judgment without Losing It | by Sakshika Dhingra, Edward W. Marx, Aditi U. Joshi and Aline Noizet

3. Create Roadmaps

Spain | XR in Public Healthcare | by José Ferrer Costa

Germany | From Slides to Strategy: How Charité Berlin Used Roadmaps to Turn Digital Pathology into Reality | by Sakshika Dhingra, Edward W. Marx, Aditi U. Joshi and Aline Noizet

Iceland | Closing the Loop Across Europe from Vision to Execution: The Asclepius Project as a CLMM Excellence Platform | by Francine de Stoppelaar

Denmark | Principles and Key Lessons from Successful Attempts and Less Fortunate Ones | by Mehdi Khaled

Switzerland | Strategic Evidence Generation for Digital Health and AI | by Kimberly Noel and Roche Pharma

Spain | When Pharmaceutical Marketing Works for AI, Not the Other Way Around | by Janet Cardoza Calderon

Spain | Building the Framework for Scalable Healthcare Innovation | by Jordi Piera-Jiménez

Spain | Building Roadmaps for Immersive, Multimodal Cognitive Rehabilitation Across Clinical Populations | by Maite Garolera, Neus Cano, Olga Gelonch, Yemila Plana, Marta Casals-Coll and Paula Gomez-Manyes

Kosovo | Building Knowledge-Driven Innovation in Nursing and Allied Health Education in Kosovo | by Besarta Taganoviq

4. Collaborate and Listen

Croatia | How to Build Health Innovation When No System Exists to Support It | by Maja Mimica

Spain | Collaborate and Listen—Designing Health Systems with Society | by Andrea Barbiero

Spain | Design Thinking for Adoption in Healthcare—How Hospitals Can Innovate Through Listening, Co-Creation, and Iteration | by Lorena Pineda

Netherlands | Augment, Don’t Automate: How Erasmus MC Used Technology to Strengthen Clinical Judgment | by Sakshika Dhingra, Edward W. Marx, Aditi U. Joshi and Aline Noizet

Italy | How the European Institute of Oncology in Milan Collaborated and Listened to Make AI Work in Cancer Care | by Sakshika Dhingra, Edward W. Marx, Aditi U. Joshi and Aline Noizet

5. Communicate and Eliminate Barriers

Georgia | Batumi Central Hospital Medical Tourism Success | by Edward W. Marx

France | Clearing the Static: How Hospital Européen Georges-Pompidou Learned That  Communication Was the Real Innovation Behind AI in Radiology | by Sakshika Dhingra, Edward W. Marx, Aditi U. Joshi and Aline Noizet

Finland | How Helsinki University Hospital Co-Created Predictive Hospital Flow to Make Innovation Everyone’s Work | by Sakshika Dhingra, Edward W. Marx, Aditi U. Joshi and Aline Noizet

6. Stress Simplicity

Sweden | From Person to Patient and Back Again | by Nicolas Waern

Portugal | A Personal Digital Twin to Understand Ventricular Extrasystoles and Reduce Friction in Longitudinal Care | by Bruno Campos

Netherlands | Less, Not More: How Erasmus MC Used Simplicity to Make Digital Innovation Stick | by Sakshika Dhingra, Edward W. Marx, Aditi U. Joshi and Aline Noizet

Sweden | Subtract to Care: How Karolinska University Hospital Reduced Clinical Stress by Designing for Simplicity | by Edward W. Marx, Aditi U. Joshi and Aline Noizet

Netherlands | Designing Calm into Care: How Erasmus MC Reduced Cognitive Stress Through Simplicity | by Sakshika Dhingra, Edward W. Marx, Aditi U. Joshi and Aline Noizet

7. Recognize and Reward

Kosovo | Hackathon on Digital Health and AI | by Edward W. Marx

England | What Gets Valued Gets Sustained: How Guy’s and St Thomas’ Used Recognition to Make Innovation Stick | by Edward W. Marx, Aditi U. Joshi and Aline Noizet

Spain | What Gets Recognized Gets Repeated: How Hospital Clínic de Barcelona Used Incentives to Turn Population Health Data into Action | by Sakshika Dhingra, Edward W. Marx, Aditi U. Joshi and Aline Noizet

Ireland | Making Improvement Visible: How St. James’s Hospital Used Recognition to Turn Data into Daily Practice | by Sakshika Dhingra, Edward W. Marx, Aditi U. Joshi and Aline Noizet

8. Co-Create Solutions

Poland | Accelerating Adoption of Innovative Solutions in Hospitals and Healthcare Systems by Collaborating with Innovators | by Aline Noizet

France | Digital Innovation and Change Management to Improve Patient Pathways and Patient Experience | by Celine Orhond

Spain | Co-Creating the Future of Hospitals and the Multiple Ps: P8 Health | by Jordi Serrano Pons

Denmark | The Quiet Revolution: How Aarhus University Hospital Co-Created Ambient Voice Technology That Helped Clinicians Listen | by Sakshika Dhingra, Edward W. Marx, Aditi U. Joshi and Aline Noizet

Spain | Human Intelligence First: How Hospital Clinic de Barcelona Designed AI Around Clinical Reality | by Sakshika Dhingra, Edward W. Marx, Aditi U. Joshi and Aline Noizet

Spain | AI-Driven Adaptive Interventions Transforming Support for Children with Dyslexia and/or ADHD | by Manuel Hernández

Biography

Sakshika Dhingra is a transformative healthcare leader serving as clinical operations director at Humana, one of the leading health organizations in the United States. In her role, she drives operational excellence and innovation to improve outcomes for the Medicaid population—a US government-supported program that provides health coverage to low-income individuals and families. Over the course of her career, Sakshika has served across multiple payer organizations nationwide, consistently advancing initiatives that strengthen access, quality, and sustainability in healthcare. She is recognized for her strategic vision and for developing scalable frameworks that balance clinical effectiveness with operational efficiency. Residing in the United States, Sakshika is also a devoted mother and wife, finding her greatest joy in her family—her husband, Vivesh Sharma, and their inquisitive eight-year-old son, Aveer—who continue to inspire her commitment to innovation and care.

Edward W. Marx is CEO of Marx Advisory, a consultancy aimed at improving the marketplace experience for vendors and providers. A healthcare best-selling author of multiple books around innovation, transformation, and experience, all of his royalties are donated towards the eradication of cancer. His writings reflect his deep expertise gained while serving as CIO of the global Cleveland Clinic and NYC Health and Hospitals. He is an advisor for start-ups and multinational companies and sits on the boards of multiple health systems. He advises governments on digital transformation strategies. When not working, Ed competes internationally for TeamUSA Triathlon and is on pace to climb the Seven Summits. Ed is married to Dr. Simran Marx, and they share five children and more than five grandchildren.

Aditi U. Joshi is an emergency medicine physician, global health strategy consultant, and CEO of Ardexia, a digital health consultancy focused on clinician adoption and implementation. She has built 13+ digital health programs over a decade and advises on AI, RPM, and telehealth. She has worked with health systems, startups, and governments globally to ensure digital health technologies deliver measurable results and include the clinician perspective. Her experience spans implementations across three continents. She is the co-author of the bestselling book Telehealth Success: How to Thrive in the New Age of Remote Care, which outlines the Telehealth Success Framework used internationally to design and scale digital medicine programs. Dr. Joshi serves as an advisor to the American Medical Association’s Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group advising on reimbursement of digital medicine in the United States. She lives in Paris, France.

Aline Noizet is a connector by heart! A very active actor and recognized influencer in the health and innovation sector with a strong international network, she is on top of the latest digital health trends and technologies. With more than fourteen years working in the digital health and healthtech space, Aline has been supporting startups and corporations over the years through her own boutique consulting Digital Health Connector and has acquired strong international experience working with and for startups, investors, pharmaceuticals, payers, medtech, patient associations, regulators etc. Aline holds a Master of Arts (English literature and civilisation) from Lyon 3 University (France) and a Master of Business Administration from ESADE (Spain). Born in France, she has been living in Barcelona, Spain, for the past fifteen years, where she also founded Digital Health Innovators, a local community bringing together the actors of the digital health ecosystem.