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PharmIA: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

PharmIA is a SaaS platform for hospital pharmacists, marketed in France and Belgium, for analysing, checking and validating medication prescriptions and detecting drug-related risk situations. It combines therapeutic information with the patient's medical context, such as laboratory and clinical data and history, prioritises prescriptions, allows custom checking rules, warns about precautions and risks and supports telepharmacy. The rules come from recognised sources and drug databases approved by the HAS, such as Thériaque, and the solution fits into hospital information systems.

PharmIA is a French SAS with its seat in Montpellier and is part of the Quinten group. According to the vendor, the data of the site and of the SaaS services is hosted in France by Quinten, which is HDS certified, and data processing complies with the GDPR. No self-hosting option is mentioned. The website names no foreign owner of the group. For European hospitals, this means hosting in France.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 17, 2026
Headquarters
FranceVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Healthcare
Type
Product
Website
pharmia.net ↗

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European alternatives to PharmIA

The European alternatives to PharmIA come from our knowledge base of over 9,900 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with PharmIA

PharmIA is headquartered in France and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so PharmIA scores best on data residency.

PharmIA is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs PharmIA together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to PharmIA?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to PharmIA include Ada Health, adamcares and Agfa HealthCare. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to PharmIA?

Our list of EU alternatives to PharmIA is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is PharmIA GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

PharmIA is headquartered in France (EU) and hosts data in the EU. That makes PharmIA an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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