DGP OWL and Founda Health Deepen Partnership to Expand Connected Healthcare in Paderborn
Joint efforts focus on scaling cross-sector data exchange, enhancing interoperability, and enabling patient-centric digital healthcare across the regionAugust 07, 2025
The Digital Health Platform OWL GmbH (DGP OWL) and Founda Health GmbH (Founda Health) are continuing their strategic partnership. Together, they aim to consistently develop digital healthcare – interoperable, across sectors, and patient-centric.
Founda Health provides the technological foundation for the DGP OWL platform architecture. For hospitals and HIEs struggling with fragmented systems and complex interoperability challenges, Founda delivers a single, standards-based data and image availability platform that connects existing systems with modern, interoperable services. The platform thus creates a common, technology-neutral foundation for secure and efficient data and image exchange.
Currently, over 170 physicians in the Paderborn practice network and four acute care hospitals in the Paderborn metropolitan area are connected to the platform. The partnership lays the foundation for targeted expansion – both with a view to additional medical and social care facilities and the development of new digital use cases.
"Our goal is to make collaboration between the stakeholders involved in the healthcare process simpler, more structured, and more efficient – across sector boundaries. With Founda Health, we have a strong partner who not only operates our platform reliably but is also open to new ideas," says Nils Brinkmeyer, Managing Director of DGP OWL.
"The infrastructure meets the highest standards of data protection and interoperability – which are key prerequisites for the responsible and legally compliant handling of health data," says Thomas Gundlach, also Managing Director of DGP OWL.
"Such networks make an essential contribution to shaping healthcare structures for the future. The future of healthcare is interconnected – and needs digital infrastructures that enable collaboration. With DGP OWL, we are creating precisely this framework: secure, interoperable, cross-sectoral – and close to healthcare practice," says Cindy Gieselmann, Commercial Lead DACH at Founda Health.
In addition to technical development, the focus is on practical solutions. Existing structures for cross-sectoral care will be further strengthened and expanded, specifically in and for the region.
About Founda Health
Founda Health is a vendor-neutral data availability platform for hospitals and HIEs, bringing together data and image exchange, standards-based APIs and automated compliance controls into one scalable platform. This approach empowers teams to access, exchange, and utilize the data they need to improve clinical productivity, accelerate AI innovation and drive better healthcare outcomes.
About the Digital Health Platform OWL GmbH
The Digital Health Platform OWL GmbH, based in Paderborn, operates a digital infrastructure to promote cross-sectoral networking in the healthcare and social care sector. By connecting relevant stakeholders, the platform creates digital interfaces that close gaps in care and enable continuous patient care. The focus is on data security, interoperability, and user-friendly application.