Research2Guidance November 27, 2025
Hospitals are in financial trouble. At the same time, digital health startups are desperate for specialised external support.
The cross-point between those two trends is a new €1B+ market where hospitals become service providers.
Hospitals are beginning to sell services to digital health companies. Not clinical care, but validation, testing, data services, acceleration programs, regulatory guidance, and access to their infrastructure. And the demand is far bigger than most health systems realize.
This is the moment where hospitals stop seeing themselves as cost centers and become innovation platforms.
I. Hospitals Need New Revenue Streams — Fast
The financial free fall is no longer subtle.
30–60% of hospitals in the US and Europe are operating at negative margins, with similar or...







