Strategic priorities for a resilient healthcare system

• Governance and collaboration: The governance framework for digital health transformation should bestrengthened to ensure strategic alignment with the European Health Data Space (EHDS) governanceframework and promote stakeholder collaboration. A multistakeholder governance network should beestablished to identify synergies and dependencies across the government and prevent silo thinking.Ensuring that decisions are guided by expertise rather than short-term political cycles.
• Enhanced health information systems: Patient-centred care requires a robust health information systemarchitecture. This requires strengthening electronic health records and accessibility and data governance.It requires modernising the national health information infrastructure with unified standards andinteroperable systems across all levels of care, both public and private, ensuring secure, high-quality dataflows that support clinical decisions and emergency response. The establishment of robust datagovernance that enables secure data exchange with academic and innovation partners is needed toaccelerate healthcare research and secondary data use.
• Surveillance and early warning systems: The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that resilient healthsystems need more than technological solutions. Policies must enable the integration of monitoringmechanisms to enable swift actions when threats are detected. This requires standardised structured dataand the integration of diverse sources to enable real-time alerts and AI-driven epidemic intelligence.Surveillance systems that support crisis response with clear protocols and simulation-based training usingdigital tools should be strengthened.