Hellenic Digital Health Cluster (HDHC)

Name

Hellenic Digital Health Cluster (HDHC)

Legal name

Hellenic Digital Health Cluster (HDHC)

Website

https://hdhc.gr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

HDHC is a non-profit Greek digital health cluster founded in 2021 under FORTH, coordinating 41+ member organizations through consulting, networking, and entrepreneurship support services, and participating in EU-funded projects including VELES, IRHIS, and Level Up.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Health Cluster Services

NAICS

Individual and Family Services (6241), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Global Health Systems Strengthening (BPAGABAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Healthcare Data Lakes, Lakehouses & Cloud Warehouses (HLACAIAA), Health Systems Strengthening & Global Health Technical Assistance (BPADAEAH), Health Systems Strengthening & Universal Health Coverage (UHC) (BPADAIAE)

Keywords

• Digital health cluster
• Health innovation ecosystem
• EHealth coordination services
• Health data space
• MedTech collaboration

Headquarters

HQ city

Athens

HQ country

Greece

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Cluster Membership Services: HDHC provides membership-based services to digital health organizations including consulting, networking, entrepreneurship support, and outreach services. The cluster facilitates connections between members and international funding opportunities, R&D projects, and business development activities.
2. EU Project Participation: HDHC participates in EU-funded projects (VELES, IRHIS, Level Up) that provide funding for digital health ecosystem development, pilot implementations, and cross-border collaboration initiatives

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

HDHC is a non-profit digital health cluster organization that coordinates and supports the Greek digital health ecosystem by connecting over 50 entities including startups, research centers, healthcare providers, and enterprises. It delivers four service pillars — Consulting, Entrepreneurship Support, Networking, and Outreach — to its 41 members, and participates in EU-funded projects (VELES, IRHIS, Level Up) that advance health data spaces, remote care demonstrations, and digital skills training.

Product overview

The Hellenic Digital Health Cluster (HDHC) is a cluster organization, not a product company. HDHC functions as a coordination and support platform that provides services to its members rather than selling a unified product. Its core offerings consist of four service pillars: Consulting (studies, tender participation, R&D support), Networking (events, project collaboration facilitation), Entrepreneurship Support (business missions, trainings), and Outreach (promotion, publications). The cluster connects more than 50 innovative entities in Greece's digital health ecosystem and participates in EU-funded projects including IRHIS, VELES Excellence Hub, and Level Up.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• HDHC Consulting Services
• HDHC Networking Services
• HDHC Entrepreneurship Support
• HDHC Outreach Services

Quantifiable outcome

• 50+ ecosystem entities connected
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• ANTHEM Foundation (Fondazione ANTHEM)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026HDHC announced a new international collaboration with the Italian ANTHEM Foundation, formally launched at the beginning of 2026 with the signing of a collaboration agreement.
• smartHEALTH European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026HDHC collaborates with smartHEALTH EDIH on events, panels, and digital health initiatives including webinars on entrepreneurship in digital health.
• SEIV - Association of Medical and Biotechnological Product EnterprisescoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 December 2025HDHC and SEIV signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing a stable framework for collaboration to strengthen the ecosystem of medical technology and digital health solutions in Greece. Collaboration includes joint strategic interventions, thematic working groups, exchange of expertise on regulatory and technological issues, and coordination of ecosystem-building actions at national and European level.
• AI Catalyst - Association of Artificial IntelligencecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2025HDHC and AICatalyst signed an MoU during AIForum25 to advance digital health and unlock new opportunities at the intersection of AI and health innovation. AICatalyst is a non-profit association bringing together experts from entrepreneurship, science, and technology to accelerate Greece's transition into an AI-enabled future.
• DHI Cluster BulgariacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 August 2025HDHC and DHI Cluster Bulgaria signed an MoU for a key step toward building a stronger, more connected digital health community across the region. Collaboration focuses on facilitating connections between stakeholders and innovative SMEs, knowledge transfer, joint participation in healthcare events and projects, and strengthening regional cooperation.
• IRHIS Project ConsortiumcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025HDHC participates in the IRHIS project (Grant 101160941) funded by I3 Instrument. The project aims to establish the first EU-wide Advanced Remote Care Demonstration Chain with 20 partners from 13 EU Regions. HDHC leads Work Package 1 focusing on building the Advanced Remote Care Demonstration Chain.
• ECHAlliance (European Connected Health Alliance)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2024HDHC officially became a member of the ECHAlliance global community in March 2024. ECHAlliance is a Global Health Connector that brings together stakeholders in digital health across regions and countries.
• VELES Excellence Hub ConsortiumcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2023HDHC participates in VELES Excellence Hub (Grant 101087483) funded by HORIZON WIDERA. The project pioneers the European Health Data Space by building the first Regional Smart Health Data Space in South-East Europe with partners from Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Cyprus, Sweden, Spain, and Germany.
• Level Up Project ConsortiumminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023HDHC participates in Level Up (Grant 101100679) funded by DIGITAL EUROPE Programme. The project aims to empower digital competencies of European SMEs through short-term training courses. HDHC focuses on dissemination and broadcasting of training courses.
• Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2021HDHC was founded by FORTH in March 2021. FORTH is one of the largest research centers in Greece with well-organized facilities and a reputation as a top-level research institution. FORTH comprises eight Research Institutes and conducts specialized scientific research in strategic high-added value sectors including computer science, bioinformatics, precision medicine, and digital health.
• PRAXI NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2021PRAXI Network is the leading technology transfer and innovation support organization in Greece with 30 years of unique know-how. Responsible for the establishment, coordination and support of industry clusters including HDHC, Hellenic BioCluster, Hellenic Photonics Cluster, and Innovation Greece.
• Center for eHealth Applications and Services (CeHA)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2021CeHA operates as part of FORTH's Computational Biomedicine Laboratory with mission to develop innovative, user-friendly, personalized digital tools to support effective and sustainable health services. Software developed by CeHA has been installed in more than 60 health units in Greece.
• European Cluster Collaboration Platform (ECCP)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2021HDHC is a member of the European Cluster Collaboration Platform, connecting with other clusters across Europe for collaboration and knowledge exchange.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• ECHAlliance (European Connected Health Alliance): ECHAlliance is a global digital health cluster network connecting healthcare organizations, companies, and government actors across 75+ countries. HDHC is itself a member of ECHAlliance and shares the core mission of convening digital health ecosystems, running EU-funded projects, and brokering cross-border partnerships.
• ANTHEM Foundation (Fondazione ANTHEM): ANTHEM is an Italian non-profit foundation that supports digital health and connected care innovation through ecosystem-building, training, and EU project participation. HDHC signed a collaboration agreement with ANTHEM in January 2026, reflecting their directly comparable cluster-management models and cross-border coordination roles.
• BioCat (Bioregion of Catalonia): BioCat is the public-private foundation that coordinates the life sciences and health innovation ecosystem in Catalonia. Like HDHC it operates as a cluster management organization affiliated with major research institutions, focused on growth, internationalization, and EU project participation for its members.
• TICBIOMED: TICBIOMED is a non-profit digital health cluster based in Murcia, Spain, acting as a regional hub for MedTech and eHealth startups, hospitals, and universities. It offers the same consulting, networking, and acceleration services as HDHC, and the two are natural collaboration partners within ECHAlliance and EU digital health initiatives.
• DHI Cluster Bulgaria: DHI Cluster Bulgaria is the Bulgarian digital health innovation cluster connecting stakeholders across SEE. HDHC signed an MoU with DHI Cluster Bulgaria in August 2025 for regional cooperation, and the two play equivalent roles as national-level digital health cluster conveners in their respective markets.
• Health Hub Vienna (now Healthcare Information Hub Vienna): Health Hub Vienna is an Austrian digital health cluster that brings together hospitals, startups, researchers, and corporates around health innovation. It runs similar consulting, networking, and acceleration services to HDHC and competes with it for EU project leadership in central European digital health programs.
• Hellenic BioCluster (HBio): Hellenic BioCluster is the Greek life sciences cluster managed by PRAXI Network, the same founding organization of HDHC. It serves overlapping members (biotech, pharma, digital health) in Greece and competes/cooperates for Greek innovation ecosystem visibility and EU funding.

Broad incumbents

• EIT Health: EIT Health is a pan-European public-private partnership funded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, with a much larger portfolio spanning accelerators, education, and innovation projects across healthcare. It is a far larger incumbent that competes for the same EU health-innovation funding pool and corporate partners, but operates at a multi-country rather than national-cluster level.
• PRAXI Network: PRAXI Network is the leading Greek technology transfer and innovation-support organization and co-founder of HDHC. It manages multiple industry clusters (including HDHC, Hellenic BioCluster, Hellenic Photonics Cluster) and is a broader incumbent in cluster management with deeper corporate and government relationships in Greece.

Emerging players

• AICatalyst (Association of Artificial Intelligence): AICatalyst is a Greek non-profit association focused on accelerating adoption of AI across industries. It recently signed an MoU with HDHC to advance the intersection of AI and digital health, positioning it as a complementary emerging ecosystem player at the AI/health boundary where HDHC is also active via IRHIS.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/HDHC
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hellenic-digital-health-cluster-hdhc

Compliance1 record

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

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