Transforming European healthcare: HippocrAItes’ EHDS-ready health data platform

This is a guest post from HippocrAItes, an AWS partner.

In March 2025, the European Union adopted the European Health Data Space (EHDS) regulation, launching a major shift toward more accessible and interoperable health data across Europe. Despite growing demand for personalized care, health data has remained fragmented—up to 97 percent of hospital-generated data goes unused, and physicians spend nearly half their time navigating different electronic health record (EHR) systems.

To address this, HippocrAItes, Finland-based healthcare data & AI innovation company built the Hippo Health Platform on HAQM Web Services (AWS), combining secure, scalable cloud infrastructure with a user-centric approach to health data. The platform unifies data from national repositories and personal devices into a single, secure health account. This drives better clinical decisions and streamlined workflows, and saves up to 10 minutes per consultation.

The platform complies with Finnish national regulations, including a successful audit by the Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), and is authorized to use Kanta as a trusted data source. With AWS HealthLake, a fully managed FHIR storage, transactional, and analytics service, launching in the EU (Ireland) Region in June 2025, HippocrAItes is well-positioned to support secure, regulation-compliant health data use across the EU.

Use Case: iLääkärit

Founded in 2024, iLääkärit is a Finnish healthcare provider offering fast and high-quality remote consultations for general medical needs. The company has partnered with HippocrAItes to integrate the Hippo Health Platform into its service model. The goal of this collaboration is to seamlessly incorporate the personal doctor model into remote care and enhance continuity of care in digital settings.

With the Hippo Health Platform, iLääkärit’s physicians gain smooth and secure access to patients’ health data. Patients retain ownership of their data and can authorize doctors to view it, reducing the need to recall detailed information during consultations. This improves the quality of care and frees up physicians to focus on what matters most—engaging with patients and making informed clinical decisions.

The platform also significantly reduces administrative overhead:

Physicians no longer need to navigate multiple systems to gather patient information, which lightens their cognitive workload and allows them to focus on clinical work.

According to user studies, the Hippo Health Platform can save physicians up to 10 minutes of working time per patient by streamlining tasks before and after the actual encounter. The comprehensive patient summary view (Hippo Clinic) and patient-controlled data sharing (Hippo Health Account) together support a smoother, more personalized care experience.

Petri Salo, CEO of iLääkärit, sees the pilot as a significant step toward modern, personalized healthcare. According to him, this is not only a technical solution, but also a platform that signals a broader transformation in the healthcare service system. “We found a way to combine funding models with customer-centric service in a cost-effective way. When remote consultations are fully covered by Finland’s national health insurance Kela, the service becomes truly accessible to everyone,” Salo explained in an article on the HippocrAItes website.

Efficiency is at the core of iLääkärit’s model: the average consultation time for common ailments is just 2.5 minutes. Thanks to the Hippo Health Platform, family doctors can offer a broader range of services within a limited time frame while maintaining a high standard of care. The collaboration with HippocrAItes enables the expansion of services to all patients—without out-of-pocket costs—and reduces the cognitive burden on physicians, supporting continuity of care even in remote settings.

Technology behind Hippo Health Platform

Hippo Health Platform is built on AWS infrastructure. AWS technology is used to integrate multiple data sources like Finland’s national health data repository (Kanta) and Apple Health into a comprehensive personal health data vault. The health data is stored and transformed in AWS HealthLake in Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) format. The FHIR data model is essential, as it enables the interoperability required by EHDS.

AWS HealthLake’s fully managed FHIR transactional and analytical capabilities allow us to focus on what matters most to Hippo Health Platform end-users while using the latest health data & AI innovations available. Robust interoperability supports aggregating data from multiple sources, enabling the platform to seamlessly integrate with analytical tools and medical decision support systems. This empowers healthcare professionals to put the data to use and more effectively carry out their critical work.

Figure 1. Hippo Health Platform uses AWS technology to combine individual’s complete health and wellness data set with medical analysis to help healthcare professionals do their jobs better

Hippo Clinic for clinicians

Hippo Clinic provides healthcare professionals with a clear and comprehensive view of essential patient health data, enabling high-quality and efficient clinical decision-making. The interface is built around the International Patient Summary (IPS), which consists of modular components that retrieve data from AWS HealthLake and present it in a format that supports physicians’ workflows.

How HippocrAItes supports EHDS goals

HippocrAItes is the first company in Europe to offer a platform that unifies health data for both individuals and healthcare professionals—fully aligned with the EHDS framework, which will be fully enforced by 2031. Unlike traditional systems, the Hippo Health Platform combines patient-controlled data ownership with clinician-oriented tools that streamline workflows and support real-time, holistic decision-making.

Built on Health Level Seven International FHIR standards (HL7 FHIR), the platform supports interoperability and the seamless exchange of health data across systems and borders—advancing EHDS goals of cross-border data sharing and system compatibility. Patients can access and manage their own health records through an intuitive interface, empowering them to control and share their data as needed.

By making health data more accessible and usable, the platform enhances care quality, improves efficiency, and supports continuity of care—whether the patient is at home or abroad. This positions HippocrAItes at the intersection of personalized care and data-driven innovation in Europe.

Competitive advantages

The Hippo Health Platform offers an array of benefits, including:

• Individual-centric approach: The data is truly in the possession of the individual. This has not done or seen before—yet, this enables a health service, device, or other provider to deliver completely personalized health solutions wherever and whenever the individual needs them. This also transforms the drug and treatment development and follow ups.
• Interoperability with existing processes and systems: The Hippo Health Platform facilitates integration and interoperability with existing processes, workflows and programs. The built-in modularity enables personalization, but scalable operability as well.
• Scalability across the EU (and beyond): The Hippo Health Platform is built for seamless scalability across the European Union and beyond. Designed in alignment with the EHDS framework and international data standards, the platform supports a patient-centric approach while providing a robust foundation for partners to develop innovative health services.

To support secure, scalable, and regulation-compliant infrastructure, HippocrAItes has partnered with AWS—a leading cloud provider. This collaboration enables the platform to deliver high-performance, future-proof solutions that meet the evolving needs of healthcare systems across Europe.

Conclusion

HippocrAItes delivers a future-ready, regulation-compliant health data platform tailored for Europe. Fully aligned with EHDS and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), it empowers individuals with data ownership while equipping clinicians with intelligent tools to turn fragmented data into personalized, high-quality care.

In recognition of our human-centric approach, HippocrAItes was awarded the prestigious MyData Award in spring 2025. This honor highlights HippocrAItes’ commitment to empowering individuals maintain control over their personal data and promoting transparency in digital health services.

HippocrAItes is shaping the future of responsible AI in healthcare. In autumn 2025, HippocrAItes will join the national MANAGE-AI research initiative—led by VTT and the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health—to co-develop ethically grounded, socially sustainable AI solutions that support both healthcare professionals and patients.

The mission of HippocrAItes is clear: to build a smarter, more inclusive, and more efficient healthcare system for all. If you’re interested in learning more or exploring collaboration opportunities HippocrAItes, you can contact us.