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Europe's first digital health credential for clinicians

ODEON — Scaling Digital Health Competence. Europe's First Digital Health Credential for Clinicians.

ODEON gives institutions the tools to baseline, benchmark, and build digital health competence across their entire clinical workforce.

For medical societies, hospitals & hospital groups, and regional health authorities

6
Competency domains
Ethics, standards, governance, AI & clinical practice
32
Questions
Clinician-authored, plain language
L1–L5
Credential pathway
Greece first · Europe from 2028
For Medical Societies, Hospitals & Health Authorities

The digital tools are live. The workforce was not prepared for them.

Electronic records. AI-assisted diagnostics. Digital prescribing. Cross-border data exchange. European health systems have made the investment. The systems are live. The regulatory obligations are real. But clinical workforces were never systematically prepared for this transition.

The gap is invisible — until it isn’t. A data breach. A failed audit. A rejected funding application. ODEON gives institutions the structured pathway to close that gap — and prove they have done it.

30–70%
of EU health workers lack digital competencies for health IT systems
WHO / OECD Health at a Glance 2023
62%
of EHR implementations fail — training gaps are the leading cause
KLAS Research 2025
3–5 hrs
lost per week per undertrained clinician — time taken from patients
Frontiers in Public Health 2025

We taught clinicians to drive the technology.
We forgot to teach them the road.

Imagine training your clinical workforce to operate digital systems — and stopping there. Log in. Click. Submit. Done. No road rules. No understanding of why the data governance frameworks exist. No awareness of the AI Act obligations that now sit on their institution.

That is not a technology problem. It is a knowledge gap — and it belongs to the institution to close it.

“Because they were never equipped to understand the road they were driving on.”

01
Baseline your workforce

Deploy the DHSAT across your clinical workforce. 32 questions, six competency domains, ~10 minutes per clinician. Results aggregated and anonymised — returned by department, by role, across the entire institution.

02
Quantify the gaps

Domain-level scores reveal where knowledge gaps are concentrated — AI literacy, data governance, cybersecurity, regulatory obligations. Your Institutional Capability Report maps gaps to specific educational interventions and produces documented evidence for EU funding applications.

03
Close them. Credential them.

Each clinician receives a personalised learning pathway based on their gaps. Three foundation levels — Formative, Intermediate, Proficient — across 12 clinician-authored modules. A verifiable digital credential is issued at each level. Seeking CME accreditation through PIS.

04
Reassess. Advance.

The loop must close. Every clinician reassesses after completing each level. The institutional report is updated. What was a blind spot becomes documented, longitudinal evidence of improvement. For clinicians who reach Proficient: Levels 4 and 5 open the specialist and leadership tracks. Coming 2027.

ODEON is the guide.
Built by clinicians who have been through these frictions.

We did not build ODEON from a conference room. We built it from 25 years of implementing digital health systems across 40+ institutions — and watching the same thing happen every time. The infrastructure goes in. The training doesn’t follow. Clinicians are handed systems they were never equipped to navigate with confidence. The friction accumulates. The outcomes suffer.

ODEON is a Greek non-profit. No shareholders. No vendor agenda. No exit strategy. Every resource goes back into the mission: making the gap between digital health systems and clinical workforces disappear — permanently, structurally, at scale.

“We are not here to sell systems. We are here to make sure the clinicians using them are equipped to do so safely, confidently, and with the knowledge their patients deserve.”
Mehdi Khaled · Co-Founder & Executive Director · Former Global CMO, Oracle Health
🇪🇺 🇬🇷 HIMSS EMRAM · National Assessment
Like other EU countries, Greece has now assessed the digital maturity of its hospitals nationally via HIMSS EMRAM.

EMRAM scores reflect how digitally mature a hospital is as a system — how well it has adopted digital tools and processes at an organisational level. It measures the institution, not the clinicians working within it. A hospital can score highly on EMRAM and still have a clinical workforce that lacks the competencies to use those systems effectively. ODEON addresses the human gap in this equation.

What is HIMSS EMRAM? ↗
EU Funding Access

Institutions don't need discretionary budgets.

Active EU programmes make ODEON training procurement-eligible. Institutional analytics reports are the documented evidence base that unlocks them.

🇪🇺Digital Europe Programme
€7.8M available
DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-10 — digital health clinician upskilling
hadea.ec.europa.eu ↗
🏥EU4Health Programme
Ongoing
Continuous professional development for digital health clinicians, 2021–2027
health.ec.europa.eu ↗
🎓Erasmus+
€5.2B (2026)
VET and professional training partnerships — healthcare eligible
erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu ↗
💶Recovery & Resilience Facility
Member state funds
National digital transformation budgets — clinician training line items
ec.europa.eu ↗

Source: ec.europa.eu/health/ehealth  ·  €8.1B+ total EU digital health funding through 2027

Institutional Analytics

"Know where your clinicians stand. Track how they improve."

ODEON will publish Greece's first national benchmark dataset for clinical digital competence in 2027 — the first of its kind in the EU. As institutions enrol, this dataset grows. Institutional analytics reports serve as the documented evidence base for EU funding applications.

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Behind every institutional score is an individual clinician. The three reasons below explain what that means in practice.

What works at ward level scales to hospital level. What works at hospital level scales nationally. Greece's EMRAM results create a unique moment — the first time an entire country's hospital infrastructure has been measured against a single international standard. ODEON provides the clinical workforce layer that makes those results actionable.

Institutional pathway covers Levels 1–3 · Enrolment opens Q1 2027

The Three Obstacles

The road rules they were never taught.

Three specific obligations that sit on every clinician — whether or not their institution has told them.

01

Regulatory obligations are sitting on clinicians who have never been briefed on them.

The EU AI Act, GDPR, NIS2, and the European Health Data Space create direct obligations for clinicians — not just IT departments. The right to erasure, informed consent for AI-generated care, algorithmic accountability: these sit on the clinician. Most have no idea.

EU AI Act (2024) · GDPR · European Health Data Space Regulation
02

Ethics and patient rights are clinical duties — not IT policies.

Avoidable friction with digital systems costs clinicians 3–5 hours every week. That's time in front of a screen instead of a patient — not because the tools are bad, but because the preparation never came.

WHO Digital Health Global Strategy · European Commission COM(2022)197
03

Every hour of friction with technology is an hour taken from patients.

New EU frameworks — on AI, data, and cybersecurity — have attached real professional obligations to individual clinicians. Most haven't been told. ODEON teaches the reasoning behind the rules, not the rules themselves.

Frontiers in Public Health 2025 · KLAS Research 2025
Our mission

Why ODEON

ODEON works exclusively with institutions — not individual clinicians, not vendors.

Care quality enhanced by digitally capable clinicians. That's not a slogan. It's our metric. ODEON exists to close the gap between the tools clinicians are handed and the preparation they receive.

  • Built by practising clinicians — not vendors, not consultants
  • Outcomes-first: every module mapped to measurable competency change
  • For medical societies, hospitals & hospital groups, and regional health authorities
  • CME accreditation: PIS (primary) · EACCME (international)In progress
  • Greece first. European scale from 2028.

Greek non-profit (ΑΜΚΕ). No shareholder. No vendor agenda. Registered under G.E.MI. 194135838000.

Confirmed clinical partners
HAOST PSF
The founding team

The clinicians and technologists who decided to build the standard Europe's clinical workforce needed.

Dr. Mehdi Khaled
Dr. Mehdi Khaled
Co-Founder & Executive Director

28 years of global hands-on digital health leadership across 40+ health systems. Architect of ODEON's credentialling framework and institutional strategy.

Prof. Elias Panagiotopoulos
Prof. Elias Panagiotopoulos
Co-Founder & President

Emeritus Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery. Fmr Board Member & Fmr Chair, Regionalization Committee — Global Fragility Fracture Network. Four decades of clinical leadership in Greece and Europe.

Maria Kalogianni
Maria Kalogianni
Co-Founder & Head of Technology & Intelligence

MSc (x2). Technology lead across all ODEON pillars. Platform architecture, data intelligence, and systems integration.

ODEON Academy

Five levels. One standard.
Built for practising clinicians.

Clinician-authored. CME-accredited. Built around how clinicians actually work.

For the institution: each level represents a measurable, credentialled threshold of digital health competence. When your clinicians earn their credential, you have documented, verifiable evidence of what they know, what regulatory obligations they understand, and where gaps remain. That is not a training certificate. That is institutional intelligence.

The credential you earn at Level 3 means more because of the path you took to get there.

Level 1
Formative badge
Formative

You understand the digital health landscape and your place within it.

3 modules CME-credited SAT entry

Institutional pathway · B2B

Level 2
Intermediate badge
Intermediate

You work confidently with digital tools and foundational data concepts.

4 modules CME-credited SAT entry

Institutional pathway · B2B

Level 3
Proficient badge
Proficient

You apply digital health knowledge to improve care workflows.

5 modules CME-credited SAT entry

Institutional pathway · B2B

Level 4
Specialist Fellow badge
Specialist Fellow

You lead digital health initiatives and contribute to standards.

CME-credited Exam Certification

Open to individual clinicians

Level 5
Senior Fellow badge
Senior Fellow

You shape strategy and advance the field at a systems level.

CME-credited Exam Certification

Open to individual clinicians

Specialist & Professional Tracks — Levels 4 & 5

Advanced practitioners choose a specialisation track for their examination pathway.

4.1Interoperability & Standards
4.2Clinical Coding & Diagnostic Classification
4.3Telemedicine & Remote Care
4.4Clinical Data & AI Governance
4.5Clinical Decision Intelligence & Integrated Care
5.1Digital Health Strategy, Operations & Governance
5.2Health Tech Innovation & Assessment
How it works

A clinical pathway. Four steps. One credential that grows with you.

01
Assess

Take the free self-assessment. Six domains. Ten minutes. No preparation needed. Your result tells you exactly where to start.

Free · No sign-up
02
Learn

Your result maps to a level. Work through clinician-authored modules at your own pace — structured, practice-anchored, and CME-accredited.

CME-credited Self-paced
03
Earn your Credential

L1–L3: a stackable digital badge for each level, portable across Europe. L4–L5: sit the examination on your chosen specialist track and earn a named certification.

CME-credited L4–L5 Certified
04
Advance

Recertify every three years. Progress to the next level. Join the ODEON public register — a verifiable, searchable record of your digital health competence.

Public register 3-year renewal
Levels 1–3 · Institutional

Enrolment through your hospital, clinic, or medical association. Enrolment starts Q1 2027. Use the contact form to express interest.

Levels 4–5 · Individual

Open directly to practising clinicians. Examination-based. Public register entry. Shareable post-nominal credential.

Our curriculum is developed by practising clinicians and reviewed by European digital health experts. Module details are shared with institutional partners upon engagement.

Request Assessment Access → Institutional enquiries
Why it matters

When technology disappears,
patients get their clinician back.

When you drive a car, you do not think about the engine. You do not think about the road rules. You just drive. The technology has become invisible — absorbed into the act of being a driver. That is not ignorance. That is mastery.

That is what clinical confidence with digital health looks like. Not expertise in systems. Not fluency in compliance checklists. The quiet assurance that the technology is handled — so the clinician can be fully present with the patient. So the patient gets 100% of the clinical encounter. Not 70%. Not 85%. One hundred percent.

ODEON is a non-profit. We have no shareholders. No exit strategy. Our mission is to make the friction between clinicians and health technology disappear — permanently, structurally, at scale — starting in Greece, expanding across Europe.

Non-profit · Mission-driven

ODEON is a registered Greek A.M.K.E. Every resource returned to the mission. No shareholders. No exit.

Clinician-authored

Every question, every module, every assessment written by practising clinicians. No vendor content.

European-first

Built for the EU regulatory landscape. Grounded in the EU AI Act, GDPR, NIS2, and the European Health Data Space.

“We make technology disappear — so patients regain 100% of their clinician’s focus.”
Common questions

Frequently asked questions

What assessment tools does ODEON offer?
ODEON offers three assessment instruments: the Digital Health Self-Assessment Tool (DHSAT) measuring competence across six domains; the AI Maturity Assessment (Tier 1) evaluating AI readiness across four clinical domains; and the AI Agent Readiness Check (Tier 2) for institutions considering clinical AI agent deployment. All three are available to institutions upon request following agreement.
What are the five credential levels?
Level 1 (Formative), Level 2 (Intermediate), and Level 3 (Proficient) form the foundational pathway — CME-credited, SAT entry. Level 4 (Specialist Fellow) and Level 5 (Senior Fellow) are examination-based certifications on specialist and strategic tracks, requiring Levels 1–3 completion.
Is the ODEON Academy CME-accredited?
Yes. All modules are CME-credited. Accreditation is in progress with PIS (Panhellenic Medical Society) as the primary body, with EACCME for international recognition from Year 2.
How do institutions access ODEON assessment tools?
Assessment tools are available to institutions — hospitals, clinics, and medical associations — upon request and following institutional agreement. Access is not open to individual clinicians outside an institutional context. To request access, use the contact form.
What EU funding is available for digital health training?
Several active EU programmes make ODEON training procurement-eligible: the Digital Europe Programme, EU4Health 2021–2027, Erasmus+ VET partnerships, and national Recovery and Resilience Facility budgets. Institutional analytics reports serve as the evidence base for applications.
Who authors the modules?
All modules are authored by practising clinicians — doctors, nurses, or allied health professionals — with at least 10 years of digital health experience. Every module is peer-reviewed by the ODEON Content Review Board.
What is the difference between Level 4 and Level 5?
Level 4 (Specialist Fellow) offers five specialist tracks including Interoperability, Clinical AI Governance, and Telemedicine. Level 5 (Senior Fellow) offers two strategic tracks: Digital Health Strategy and Health Tech Innovation. Both require completing Levels 1–3 and passing an examination.
Does the self-assessment cover all five levels?
The DHSAT covers Levels 1–3 only. It identifies your entry point into the foundational pathway. Levels 4 and 5 require examination and certification after completing Levels 1–3.
Calling Clinical Authors

Help shape Europe's first standardised digital health curriculum.

We are commissioning practising clinicians to author modules for the ODEON Academy. Selective. Peer-led. Your opportunity to define the standard.

What we're looking for

Practising clinician or digital health expert — doctor, nurse, or allied health professional

Minimum 10 years hands-on clinical and/or digital health experience

European-based (preferred)

Fluent English — ODEON handles all translations, dubbing, and subtitles

Evidence-based, practice-first approach. No vendor promotion.

The commissioning process
01
Apply
Submit interest form
02
Review
CRB assessment & COI
03
Commission
Contract & brief
04
Deliver
Peer review & publish

Conflict of Interest declaration required. EACCME-aligned, 36-month lookback, vendor-specific exclusions. Reviewed by the ODEON Content Review Board.

What authors receive

€5,000 per module (incl. VAT) — fixed fee, exclusive rights, 3-year renewable contract



ODEON Author credential — digital badge, shareable on LinkedIn and your CV

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Named authorship on a European CME-accredited programme

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Access to the ODEON Collective — Europe's clinical digital health network

Application timeline
Deadline
31 July 2026 — Applications close
Decision
31 August 2026 — Outcomes communicated
Delivery
Q4 2026 — Commissioning begins
Express your interest

Reviewed by the Content Review Board · crb@odeonhealth.org

Get in touch

Contact ODEON

Your institution. Your workforce. Your first step.

Institutional partnerships, media enquiries, or general questions — we read every message.

Please use your institutional email address — not gmail, yahoo or personal accounts.