Blog
19–21 May 
Bella Center, Copenhagen 
There’s a word that gets thrown around a lot in healthcare technology circles: partnership.
It shows up in press releases, booth banners, and keynote slides. It implies collaboration, shared direction, and mutual investment in outcomes. But in practice, most of what gets called partnership is something closer to adjacency: two companies that can reference each other without getting in each other’s way.
Real co-creation is rare. And in healthcare IT, it matters more than almost any other industry because the stakes of getting it wrong aren’t measured in lost revenue. They’re measured in delayed care, burned-out clinicians, and systems that outlive their usefulness by a decade because no one can afford to replace them.
So, what does it actually look like when organizations build together, not just alongside each other?
It starts with a shared diagnosis, not a shared product.
When WEM No-Code, YellowBrink, and openEHR NL started working together, the conversation didn’t begin with features or integrations. It began with a shared frustration.
Healthcare organizations across Europe are caught in the same trap: operational software that was built for a world that no longer exists, vendor roadmaps that don’t account for how care actually gets delivered, and IT backlogs that turn a two-week workflow change into an eighteen-month project.
The organizations closest to the problem, the clinicians, administrators, and operations lead who live inside these systems every day, often know exactly what needs to change. What they lack is the ability to act on that knowledge without going through layers of procurement, development, and dependency on external timelines.
That shared diagnosis is what brought us together. Not a contract. Not a go-to-market agreement. A conviction that healthcare organizations deserve to own their own operational future.
Open standards are the foundation, not the finish line.
Co-creation in healthcare technology can’t happen on proprietary ground. If every partner is building on a different foundation — different data models, different terminologies, different assumptions about how systems should talk to each other — you’re not building together. You’re building in parallel and hoping the pieces connect later.
That’s why the partnership between WEM, YellowBrink, and openEHR NL is grounded in open international standards: openEHR, HL7FHIR, OMOP, no-code. Not because open standards are fashionable, but because they’re the only foundation that makes genuine interoperability possible across organizations, across borders, across decades.
Open standards mean that what you build today doesn’t become a liability tomorrow. They mean that a care pathway designed in Amsterdam can be understood in Copenhagen. They mean that when regulations change (and they will), your systems can adapt without starting from scratch.
Choosing open standards isn’t a technical decision. It’s a statement about what kind of future you’re building toward.
No-code isn't about removing expertise. It's about putting it in the right hands.
One of the most persistent misunderstandings about no-code healthcare software is that it exists to replace developers. It doesn’t. It exists to give the people who understand a problem the ability to solve it — without a queue.
WEM’s no-code platform lets healthcare organizations build, adapt, and automate their own operational software. The people designing those workflows aren’t developers. They’re the nurses, coordinators, and operations managers who’ve been working around broken processes for years and finally have a way to fix them.
When you combine that capability with YellowBrink’s deep expertise in healthcare implementation and openEHR NL’s leadership in open standards adoption, something shifts. The gap between “we know what needs to change” and “we’ve changed it” gets dramatically shorter.
That’s what co-creation produces when it’s working: not just better software, but faster learning, faster adaptation, and systems that stay relevant because the people closest to the work can keep shaping them.
The conversation continues in Copenhagen.
This May, WEM, YellowBrink, and openEHR NL will be at HIMSS Europe 2026 to find organizations asking the same questions.
If you’re exploring alternatives to rigid EHR systems, building on open international standards, or looking for no-code healthcare software that your teams can truly own and adapt — we’d love to be in that conversation.
📍 Booth C3-ED04 · Education Pavilion · May 19–21 · Bella Center, Copenhagen
Can’t wait until May, or want to make sure we find time to connect properly? Reach out to WEM team, and we’ll set something up around your schedule.
The future of care isn’t built by any one organization. Let’s build it together.
