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PPCN has two founders, one company in Copenhagen and one in Bangkok, and a tech team that builds.

Founders in Copenhagen and Bangkok

Board, committee and standards roles held over twenty-five years. Each can be checked against EU programme records and the HIMSS, Continua and MedCom registers.

Claus F. Nielsen

Claus F. Nielsen

CEO & Founder · PPCN.xyz ApS

Claus is CEO and founder of PPCN.xyz ApS, a Copenhagen–Bangkok digital-health innovation group working across Europe, the Gulf, and Southeast Asia. Across 25 years in clinical informatics and EU health innovation, he writes the technical requirements and system architectures that define what health programmes are trying to build, before budgets are set.

He led development of the 15-gram ePatch ECG monitor at FORCE Technology, later licensed to Philips and deployed across more than 100,000 cardiac patients. As CEO of PPCN he secured €9.7M in Horizon 2020 funding as WP2 lead on CRANE and consortium partner on ROSIA, and led the consortium bidding Qatar's $50M national telehealth infrastructure.

Vice Chair, HIMSS Personal Connected Health Alliance 2011–2018. Active keynote speaker across Europe, the Gulf, and Asia since 2008. Patient-expert in the clinical sense: 25 years of building systems from the inside of them.

“Technology captures the data. Humans deliver the care.”

€9.7M
Horizon funding, CRANE & ROSIA
6
Countries in the CRANE consortium
100k+
Patients reached via ePatch ECG
10M
Patients in the Siriraj tender scope
FORCE · Philips · EC DG-INFSO · HaDEA · Continua · MedCom · HIMSS PCHA
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Two decades on the boards and committees that shaped European digital health.

  • Continua Health Alliance Europe, Vice Chair2011 to 2018
  • AAL Joint Programme Committee, chaired AAL Forum 20102008 to 2011
  • European Commission · DG-INFSO, ICT for Ageing Well2008 to 2010
  • European Commission i2015, eInclusion subgroup2008 to 2010
  • Advisory Board for Telemedicine, Danish Government appointment2010 to 2012
  • MedCom, Danish Health Data Network · Board1997 to 2009
  • HIMSS · Continua Key Contributor Award2016
  • Siriraj × MIT Hacking Medicine, coach & mentor · sirirajxmithackmed.com2024 · 2025

M.Tech.Soc. / B.Sc., Roskilde University: Technological & Socio-Economic Planning.

Paparorn Promlerd Nielsen giving a keynote

Paparorn Promlerd Nielsen

Co-founder & Asia Lead · PPCN (Thailand) Co., Ltd.

Pak built PPCN's Thailand operation from market entry up. Her signature task: country management for Unumed Thailand, carrying a cloud-native hospital management system into the Thai market and onto the procurement shortlist for the $21M HIS tender at Siriraj Hospital, the largest public hospital in the country. A gigantic, multi-year programme that anchored PPCN's standing in Bangkok.

As HIMSS's sole representative in Thailand she built the Ministry of Public Health and MDES relationships that surround that work, ran the CPHIMS / CAHIMS certification programme that became the first structured digital-health workforce pipeline in the country, and before that opened the market for OpenTelehealth's virtual-care platform.

She came to health technology from media. She produced English-language news for Thai public broadcasting and briefed ASEAN heads of state, which is why she reads markets and narratives the way Claus reads architectures. PMP-trained, Scrum CSPO; MA University of East Anglia; BA in Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn.

Unumed · Siriraj · HIMSS Thailand (CPHIMS/CAHIMS) · National Charter for Health · OpenTelehealth · MoPH · MDES · Chulalongkorn · UEA
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The Siriraj tender and the team it built

  • Unumed Thailand · Siriraj ฿700M HIS, Country Director: took a cloud-native hospital management system into the Thai market and onto the procurement shortlist at Asia's largest public hospital. The signature country-management task of her career so far.2019 to 2022
  • HIMSS Thailand, CPHIMS / CAHIMS certification with True Digital Group. Thailand's first structured digital-health workforce pipeline.2019 to 2022
  • MoPH × MDES workforce development, convened Thailand's Ministry of Public Health and Ministry of Digital Economy & Society around a shared digital-health workforce pathway, anchored by the HIMSS certification programme above.2020 to 2022
  • National Charter for Health & Wellness Innovation Hubs, Prince of Songkla & Mahidol Universities. Phuket & Bangkok.2020 to 2022
  • OpenTelehealth Thailand, country management, RPM for COPD, CHF, hypertension.2017 to 2019
  • Coconut Bootcamp 2017, led a Danish medtech cohort into India's healthcare and tech market, partnering with the Danish Innovation Centre in Bangalore. 50+ Indian partners matched; one SME participant now publicly listed with India market penetration.2017

MA, University of East Anglia · BA Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn · PMP · Scrum CSPO.

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