Avelios Medical secures a strategic investment from software giant SAP of an undisclosed amount. Both companies are jointly driving the development of a new enterprise healthcare platform. The collaboration is based on comprehensive technical validation of the joint solution. With the investment, SAP underscores its long-term commitment to the partnership and to a new generation of technology in the clinical sector.
The background to the collaboration lies in the transformation of hospital IT. For more than three decades, many hospitals have used SAP IS-H as the central industry solution for their hospital information systems—the central software with which hospitals manage patient data, documentation, and workflows. However, SAP has announced that it will only support the solution until 2030. A closely linked medical documentation software will also only receive support until 2035. Many hospitals are therefore facing fundamental technological decisions.
IS-H discontinuation puts hospitals under pressure
In the hospital software market, currently characterized by significant transformation, Avelios positions itself as an alternative. The company’s software can be deployed independently and seamlessly integrates into existing SAP environments.
“With the investment in Avelios, we are creating the technological foundation for an open, sovereign platform for the healthcare industry. Together, we enable hospitals to have a consistently data-driven infrastructure that allows for modern care, more resilient processes, and AI-driven innovation,”
says Sebastian Steinhäuser, Chief Operating Officer and member of the board of SAP SE.
Avelios is investing the capital primarily in expanding its team as well as in product and delivery structures. At the same time, SAP opens access to a global ecosystem of implementation partners, technologies, and experience from complex transformation projects.
Platform for AI-driven clinical IT
Both partners combine their respective competencies: Avelios brings clinical process and data architecture, while SAP adds business-oriented enterprise integration. This creates a platform that brings together clinical and operational processes.
“SAP’s investment is a strong signal for the future of clinical digitalization. Together, we are creating a platform that combines medical excellence with modern technology. Our vision is a clinical IT system that relieves the burden on healthcare providers, makes data intelligently usable, and sustainably accelerates innovation in care and research. With SAP at our side, we can advance this transformation to a new level,”
says Christian Albrecht, co-founder of Avelios Medical.
Technologically, the joint solution is based on an open platform architecture. Avelios’s AI-native hospital information system serves as the central software for clinical workflows and patient data. A structured, semantically consistent data model provides the foundation for automation and productive use of AI in everyday clinical operations.
