European Healthcare & EHR Software

#1 CompuGroup Medical

Koblenz, Germany Licence plus service contract Demo on request

Best for: Practices, hospitals and pharmacies needing connected national systems

CompuGroup Medical is a German healthcare IT group whose software runs in doctors' practices, hospitals, pharmacies, laboratories and dental surgeries across dozens of countries. It is the closest thing Europe has to a full-stack alternative to the American hospital vendors.

Its advantage is national connectedness. German healthcare runs on the Telematikinfrastruktur — the electronic patient record, e-prescription, the connectors and card readers — and CGM builds for that regime directly. A vendor that was not designed into a national health infrastructure cannot meaningfully participate in it.

CompuGroup Medical SE is headquartered in Koblenz and listed in Frankfurt, covering practice management, hospital information systems, pharmacy and laboratory software, e-prescription and telematics connectivity, plus telemedicine. It is sold as licences and service contracts through a partner network rather than as published subscriptions.

Standout feature. Software in the practice, the pharmacy and the lab, all connected to national health infrastructure.

#2 Dedalus

Florence, Italy Enterprise licence and services Demo on request

Best for: Hospitals and regional health authorities

Dedalus is an Italian healthcare software group operating across European health systems, with clinical, diagnostic and administrative software for hospitals and the regional authorities that run them.

It works at the level European healthcare is actually organised: the region. Public health systems procure for networks of hospitals with shared records and referral pathways, and Dedalus builds for that structure rather than for the single-institution model American vendors assume.

Dedalus is headquartered in Florence and has grown by acquiring European health IT businesses, giving it a footprint across several national systems. Its range covers hospital information systems, electronic patient records, laboratory and radiology software, imaging, and regional health information exchange.

Standout feature. Software procured and deployed at regional scale, the way European health systems actually buy.

#3 ChipSoft

Amsterdam, Netherlands Enterprise licence and services Demo on request

Best for: Hospitals in the Netherlands and Belgium

ChipSoft builds HiX, the hospital information system used by the large majority of Dutch hospitals and a growing number of Belgian ones — an integrated electronic patient record covering clinical, administrative and financial processes in one system.

Its position rests on that word integrated. HiX is one system rather than a suite of integrated products, which removes the interface layer where most clinical IT programmes lose their money and their timelines. That is the main reason Epic has made limited headway in the Dutch market.

ChipSoft is headquartered in Amsterdam and builds specifically for the Dutch and Belgian healthcare systems — their funding models, coding standards and reporting duties — with a patient portal and mobile apps alongside the clinical system.

Standout feature. One system rather than an interfaced suite — which is where hospital IT programmes usually fail.

#4 DIPS

Bodø, Norway Public tender licensing Demo on request

Best for: Hospitals and health regions replacing a US EHR

DIPS is the electronic health record used across the majority of Norwegian hospitals — a full clinical system for specialist care rather than a practice management tool, developed in Bodø since the 1980s.

DIPS Arena is built on openEHR, which matters more than it sounds. Clinical content is modelled in open archetypes rather than in a vendor's private schema, so the record stays readable and portable — the exact property a hospital loses when a proprietary EHR becomes the only thing that can open twenty years of its own data. Documentation, orders and results, medication, referrals and surgery planning sit on top of it.

DIPS AS is based in Bodø in northern Norway — EEA rather than EU, so GDPR applies directly. For hospital records, which are special category data under Article 9, the vendor's jurisdiction is a legal constraint rather than a preference.

Standout feature. An openEHR-based record, so the hospital's own history stays readable without the vendor.

#5 Nedap Healthcare

Groenlo, Netherlands Per client or per user subscription Demo on request

Best for: Care organisations outside the hospital

Nedap Healthcare builds electronic care records for the part of healthcare that hospital systems handle badly: long-term care, disability services, mental health and home care, where the record follows a client over years rather than an admission over days.

Long-term care has a different shape from acute care — care plans, goal-setting, shift handovers and funding streams rather than diagnoses and discharges — and Nedap builds for it directly, including the Dutch care funding and billing rules that determine whether the organisation gets paid.

Nedap is headquartered in Groenlo in the eastern Netherlands, covering client records and care planning, scheduling and time registration for care staff, mobile access for community workers, and client and family portals. Care records combine health data with details of someone's home life and dependence.

Standout feature. A record that follows a client for years, built around care plans rather than admissions.

#6 Cambio

Stockholm, Sweden Enterprise licence and services Demo on request

Best for: Regional health authorities in the Nordics

Cambio builds COSMIC, an electronic health record deployed across Swedish regions and into Denmark and the UK, designed for the Nordic model where a region runs hospitals and primary care as one connected system.

It is built for regional continuity rather than institutional record-keeping. When a patient moves between primary care, a district hospital and a specialist clinic inside the same region, the record follows — which is the actual design requirement of a Nordic health system rather than a feature added to a hospital product.

Cambio is headquartered in Stockholm, covering the record across hospital and primary care with clinical decision support, medication management, referral and care pathway coordination, and regional reporting. Nordic health systems are publicly run and procured under national rules with health legislation layered over the GDPR.

Standout feature. The record follows the patient across the whole region, which is how Nordic care is organised.

#7 medatixx

Eltville am Rhein, Germany Monthly licence per practice Demo on request

Best for: German medical practices and MVZs

medatixx is one of the German practice information systems — the software a doctor's surgery runs on for records, billing and the mandated connections to the German health telematics infrastructure.

This category is decided by certification, not by features. A German practice system must implement KBV requirements and connect to the Telematikinfrastruktur for e-prescriptions and the electronic patient record; a US-built EHR cannot simply be localised into that, which is why the German market is served by German vendors. Records, quarterly billing, appointment and resource planning and specialty modules follow from there.

medatixx GmbH & Co. KG is based in Eltville am Rhein with German hosting for its cloud products, available as a local install or hosted, and supported through a regional partner network.

Standout feature. Certification for the German system, which is the requirement rather than a feature.

#8 Doctolib

Paris, France Per practitioner, per month Demo on request

Best for: Practices and clinics booking patients

Doctolib is the booking and practice platform European healthcare runs on at the patient-facing end, with tens of millions of patients across France, Germany and Italy using it to find and book appointments.

It solves a different problem from the record systems here. Patients already have accounts and already search there, so a practice joining becomes findable rather than merely bookable — and the practice management around it covers schedules, reminders that cut no-shows, documents and video consultations.

Doctolib is headquartered in Paris and hosts health data with certified health data hosting providers in Europe, which is a legal requirement rather than a marketing point: the fact of an appointment can reveal the condition. It appears here cross-listed from Appointment Scheduling, where its page lives.

Standout feature. The patient-facing half of healthcare IT — a network rather than a booking form.