ADHERA HEALTH SLU

Their core work

Adhera Health is a Spanish health technology SME specializing in digital tools for patient adherence, remote monitoring, and connected health platforms. They build software solutions — including AI-driven dashboards, machine learning analytics, and patient-facing applications — that help healthcare providers manage chronic conditions, cancer survivorship, and palliative care remotely. Their work sits at the intersection of health IT and clinical care pathways, providing the digital infrastructure that connects patients at home with their care teams.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their early H2020 period (2015–2018), Adhera Health focused on foundational connected health infrastructure and training networks — projects like CHESS and CATCH were about building researcher capacity and basic digital health platforms for cancer care. From 2019 onward, their work became far more applied and clinically specific: palliative care pathways (INADVANCE), AI-powered cancer survivorship tools (LifeChamps), and social robotics for home care (LIFEBOTS Exchange). The shift is clearly from general eHealth R&D toward specialized, patient-facing digital interventions for ageing and complex chronic conditions.

Adhera Health is moving toward integrated AI platforms for elderly and palliative care — expect them to pursue projects combining remote monitoring, clinical dashboards, and patient self-management for ageing populations.

How they like to work

Adhera Health operates exclusively as a consortium participant, never as coordinator, which is typical for a technology SME providing specific digital components within larger clinical research projects. With 88 unique partners across 25 countries in just 8 projects, they are highly networked and comfortable working in large, diverse consortia. This pattern suggests they are a reliable technology provider that integrates well into multi-disciplinary teams rather than driving the research agenda themselves.

Exceptionally broad network for their size: 88 distinct partners across 25 countries from only 8 projects, averaging 11 new partners per project. Their reach spans most of the EU, with no visible geographic concentration beyond their Spanish base.

What sets them apart

Adhera Health combines health IT platform development with clinical domain expertise in chronic disease and palliative care — a combination that's rare among SMEs. While many tech companies provide generic digital health tools, Adhera brings specific experience in cancer survivorship, elderly frailty, and end-of-life care pathways, making them a strong fit for projects that need both software engineering and clinical understanding. Their participation in LIFEBOTS Exchange also gives them unusual exposure to social robotics in care, bridging two fields that rarely overlap in a single SME.

Highlights from their portfolio

• INADVANCE
  Their largest single EC contribution (EUR 301,270) and most clinically ambitious project — building early palliative care pathways for complex chronic conditions in older adults.
• LifeChamps
  Combines AI, machine learning, and data privacy in a cancer survivorship platform — represents their most technically advanced contribution with explicit ML and dashboard components.
• LIFEBOTS Exchange
  An unusual pivot into social robotics for home care, showing willingness to explore emerging human-robot interaction technology beyond traditional software platforms.