After CRANE: where PPCN goes next
CRANE, the last of PPCN's European health programmes, closed in September 2026. What the programmes taught us, and the three areas we work in now.
PPCN · November 2026
In September 2026 the European Commission held the final review of CRANE, a Horizon 2020 programme that built a privacy-preserving data layer for chronic care across six European health systems. PPCN led the work package on architecture. With the final payment now being settled, the programme is closed.
CRANE was the last of a run of European health programmes that began for us in 2014: ROSIA on remote rehabilitation, CronIQUE on citizen-held consent, a virtual care strategy for the Saudi Ministry of Health, and the procurement architecture for a hospital information system at Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok.
Those programmes taught us three things. Data is only useful when the people who hold it trust the system that moves it. A procurement fails or succeeds on its architecture, long before the first line of code. And most of the cost in a technology project sits in the decisions made before anyone builds.
The same three lessons apply far outside healthcare. Over the past year our tech team has applied them in an owner-run manufacturing company, where a small request grew into a modernised operation with live figures for the management. We applied them again in Kuala Lumpur, where we run the programme management for MIT Hacking Medicine Malaysia's Diabetes X summit and hackathon, with the event management on T-Minus.
From now on PPCN works in three areas. In healthcare we continue the architecture and procurement work, now with AI in the toolset. In manufacturing we build live pictures of how a company runs, and the systems that keep them true. In organisations of every size, from owner-run companies to multi-site groups, we help management decide where AI belongs and build it there.
We stay small on purpose. Two founders, one company in Copenhagen and one in Bangkok, and a tech team that builds.
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