EuroCham Breakfast Talk Calls for Shared Digital Infrastructure to Unlock Sustainable Health Financing in Cambodia

The European Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia (EuroCham) Breakfast Talk: Financing Digital Health — Building the Financing Stack for Digital Care today, bringing together leaders from Cambodia’s healthcare, insurance, banking, and government sectors to explore how digital health can be financed in ways that are commercially viable and scalable.

The event, organised by EuroCham’s Healthcare Committee, featured two keynote presentations and two panel discussions drawing on regional experience and local expertise.

From Pilots to a Sustainable System

Following welcome remarks, Dr. Elias Engelking, Co-Chairperson of EuroCham’s Healthcare Committee and Head of Digital Health at Intercare Health Group, argued during his presentation that Cambodia’s digital health ambitions require shared foundations before financing can follow, including interoperability between health systems, a unified patient identity registry, and common data governance standards. He pointed to the Cambodia Digital Health Enterprise Architecture, being developed by the Ministry of Health with WHO support, as the national blueprint to align around, and called for the private sector to join forces in a Cambodia Digital Health Alliance — modelled on the Credit Bureau of Cambodia — to build shared infrastructure rather than competing, incompatible systems.

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