| Abstract |
Greece is transitioning from a late digital adopter to a fast reformer in the field of digital health and artificial intelligence (AI). This transformation is anchored in two major strategic frameworks. The first is the Digital Transformation Bible 2020-2025, the country's foundational digital policy document, which describes hundreds of projects across the public sector and explicitly prioritises the digital modernisation of health services.
The second is the 2024 national AI strategy, A Blueprint for Greece's AI Transformation, developed by the High-Level Advisory Committee on Artificial Intelligence under the Prime Minister and coordinated by the Special Secretariat of Foresight. This blueprint sets out a comprehensive vision for AI in Greece, including a clear emphasis on applications in healthcare and public administration.
At the infrastructure level, Greece has built very strong national "digital rails" for health. The national e-Prescription and e-Dispensation system, the MyHealth mobile application, and the National Electronic Health Record (EHR) operated by IDIKA S.A. provide, as of 2025, near-universal coverage for prescriptions and an increasingly rich longitudinal record of patient data.
In contrast, hospital information systems remain heterogeneous, fragmented and often poorly interoperable. A Q2 2025 Black Book Research survey of 122 Greek hospital and physician-practice administrators found that only fourteen percent of providers reported having integrated, fully functional digital health records in routine care, while ninety-eight percent expressed dissatisfaction with their current EHR environment. Despite these challenges, Greece has begun to introduce AI directly into the National Health System (NHS). In October 2025, the Ministry of Health launched the Digital Doctor Assistant, an AI-based tool that allows physicians to query the national EHR
through the myHealthDoc platform using natural language and voice commands. It is widely described by national authorities and media as the first operational AI application embedded in the Greek NHS.
Overall, Greece combines advanced national digital infrastructure with uneven clinical digitisation and limited interoperability. The country is well positioned to leverage EU funding, national AI strategy and high-performance computing resources to become a regional hub for AI in health, provided it can close the gap between national platforms and hospital-level systems and invest systematically in workforce skills and data governance. |
