New White Paper published: From Chips to Healthcare Services

Europe’s healthcare faces growing pressures from ageing populations and higher costs, but advances in semiconductors and digital technologies offer a major opportunity. This white paper explains how the “From Chips to Healthcare Services” vision aims to connect Europe’s strengths in technology and health, creating integrated, personalized, and trustworthy digital healthcare systems: The European digital continuum in health and wellbeing.

The white paper describes how crucial frameworks like the Chips Act, AI Act, and European Health Data Space align to support this transformation. It also identifies key barriers, including fragmented systems and uneven technology maturity. It calls for greater collaboration across research, industry, and public health to scale innovation across Europe. It offers recommendations to ensure that the latest technological breakthroughs lead to real improvements in healthcare for all European citizens.

Structure and Content

The white paper unfolds across four main sections that structure the path from technology to healthcare services:

• Section 2 sets the strategic context for the entire whitepaper. It explains why Europe must urgently modernise its healthcare systems, outlines the demographic and systemic pressures they face, and frames the need for a coordinated shift toward integrated digital health services. This section establishes the rationale for the vision “from chips to healthcare services” and connects Europe’s broader societal objectives with the technological and policy foundations that follow.
• Section 3 describes how semiconductors, embedded systems, edge AI, connectivity, and interoperable data spaces together form the technical continuum that enables personalised, predictive, and preventive healthcare services.
• Section 4 examines the regulatory and market landscape that supports this transformation, including the Chips Act, the AI Act, the European Health Data Space, and the Digital Health Strategy, as well as the role of the MedTech industry, startups, and public–private partnerships.
• Section 5 identifies the structural and systemic issues that still limit the adoption and scaling of digital healthcare across Member States. These include fragmentation, lack of interoperability, uneven digital maturity, skills shortages, and persistent inequalities in access.

Section 6 outlines the research and innovation pathways needed to operationalise the full continuum from semiconductor technologies to patientfacing services. It proposes integrated value-chain approaches, patient-centred and sustainable design principles, and a shared European governance model to accelerate large-scale deployment.