Greece’s Minister of Health, Adonis Georgiadis, has weighed in on the Datamed controversy with a detailed social media post. The minister disputes the figures cited in a recent report, breaking down the company’s public sector contract history and pushing back against what he calls false claims. Georgiadis also took a pointed swipe at PASOK MP Manolis Christodoulakis, writing that “for those who were unaware, Mr. Christodoulakis, despite being a fanatical socialist according to his own public political positions, remains extremely wealthy and a textbook example of a capitalist.”
Georgiadis’ post on Datamed
“The newspaper ‘Dimokratia’ has made the claim that ‘from 2020 onwards, the Ministry of Health awarded contracts worth €9 million to DATAMED, a company belonging to the family of PASOK MP Manolis Christodoulakis.’ This claim is false and is not supported by the evidence. It conflates different contracting authorities, different time periods, full contract values of company consortia, subcontracting participations, later publications of older contracts, and contractual values with actual payments.
DATAMED is a company that has been active in health informatics since 2001 and has long-standing contracts with public sector bodies. It is one of the largest and most established companies in health IT, with a multi-million euro turnover. For those who were unaware, Mr. Christodoulakis, despite being a fanatical socialist according to his own public political positions, remains extremely wealthy and a textbook example of a capitalist.
As part of a company consortium for the PHILIPPOS project — which began in 2007 and was completed in 2011 — the company has deployed digital systems across 7 military hospitals under the Ministry of National Defence. This is a contract the newspaper apparently attributes to the Ministry of Health, for reasons of its own.
The company has also progressively installed its digital systems between 2001 and 2018 across 27 public hospitals, primarily through major national framework agreements, EU Community Support Frameworks (CSF), and ESPA (European Structural and Investment Funds). All contracts for these public hospitals were secured under successive governments — PASOK, New Democracy, PASOK, ND/PASOK, and SYRIZA — well before the current seven-year period of New Democracy governance under Kyriakos Mitsotakis. It is therefore contradictory and misleading to portray this likeable socialist, filthy-rich colleague as supposedly favoured by our government, and by me in particular.
Furthermore, the project for the Primary Healthcare System (PHC) — Electronic Personal Health Record (EPHR) — was implemented by the company consortium ‘OTE SA – Byte Computer ABEE,’ with Datamed as the primary subcontractor. It was contracted and began implementation in 2017 under the SYRIZA government, and was delivered and brought into full operation on behalf of IDIKA in 2018.
From 2020 onwards, the company has primarily entered into maintenance, support, upgrade, and integration contracts for existing information systems at the aforementioned hospitals — specifically relating to systems installed prior to 2019. A sum of €1,017,334.63 relates to the Ministry of National Defence and military hospitals over the past seven years.
A sum of €2,667,702.61 relates to seven public hospitals in total over the same seven-year period. Proportionally, the company has received more funding from military hospitals than from NHS hospitals.
A sum of €1,676,620 relates to two central contracts with IDIKA after 2020. The first, worth €148,500, concerns a monitoring and management system for child, adolescent, and youth mental health. The second, worth €1,528,120, resulted from an open international tender, was awarded to a two-company consortium, and was subject to pre-contractual review by the Court of Audit. DATAMED’s share in the consortium is 41%. Therefore, from the second contract, only a contractual value of €626,529.20 can be attributed to the company — not the full €1.528 million. In total, the known attributable amount from these two contracts is €775,029.20.
Additionally, a total gross amount of €370,500 relates to independent healthcare bodies. This includes seven contracts with the National Authority for Medically Assisted Reproduction — four concerning the development of new functions for existing software and three for technical support. The total contractual amount across these specific projects from 2020 to the present therefore stands at €4,830,566.44 — and this figure covers all the different entities combined.”
Από την εφημεριδα @DimokratiaGr έχει διατυπωθεί ο ισχυρισμός ότι «από το 2020 και μετά δόθηκαν από το Υπουργείο Υγείας στην εταιρεία DATAMED, της οικογενείας του Βουλευτού του @pasok @Manolis_Chr αναθέσεις ύψους 9 εκατομμυρίων ευρώ». Ο ισχυρισμός αυτός είναι ψευδής και δεν…
— Άδωνις Γεωργιάδης (@AdonisGeorgiadi) August 12, 2026
