Romania commits €100 million from PNRR to PIAS health platform

Romania's Health Minister Alexandru Rogobete announced a €100 million Health Insurance Information Platform (PIAS), funded through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), with first modules due by end of 2025 and full deployment targeted for August 2026. PIAS will integrate patient records, prescriptions, referrals, and medical leave certificates into a single national digital system — Romania's first integrated patient data infrastructure at scale. The €100 million sits within a €400 million PNRR digitalisation envelope and follows the Draft National Health Digitalization Strategy 2026–2030 published in January. For a country that the most recent EU figures placed at the bottom on patient access to electronic health records, PIAS is the first funded build rather than another strategy document — execution against PNRR milestones is now the variable that determines whether Romania reaches the 2029 EHDS primary use window with operational infrastructure.