Strategic actions for healthcare innovators5 Key imperatives for unlocking the full potential of quantum for health. Leaders across the health and life sciences industry share common priorities that shape investments, strategic alliances, operations and talent. Creators can strengthen innovation leadership by combining C-level sponsorship, sustainable R&D funding, and pre-competitive collaborations with efforts to integrate AI, HPC and quantum across discovery pipelines, partnerships and emerging diagnostic platforms. Deliverers, meanwhile, can enhance healthcare performance by embedding quantum-secure architectures into digital health roadmaps, piloting optimization programmes in supply chains and scheduling, and preparing technology procurement strategies that integrate quantum sensing and future-ready logistics. Finally, enablers can accelerate responsible adoption by coordinating funding streams, advancing interoperability standards and aligning public-sector roadmaps with quantum-safe cryptography and regulatory readiness. Together, these perspectives create a foundation that links sector priorities with actionable pathways, clarifying how quantum can deliver tangible outcomes across research, care delivery and governance. –Build coordinated partnerships to accelerate quantum innovation across the ecosystem: Collaboration between health organizations, quantum developers, cloud platforms and research institutions enables emerging methods to be explored and refined in step with health innovation priorities. Co-designed solutions help mitigate risks related to access, integration and supply chain limitations. –Participate in structured pre-competitive and interdisciplinary efforts to advance the validation of quantum computing and sensing tools: Engaging in collective modelling benchmarks, shared evaluation studies and cross-domain working groups enables stakeholders to define the validation criteria that will guide how quantum techniques are assessed. It also allows them to determine where methods show meaningful technical gains and identify which sensing approaches exhibit credible early clinical feasibility across research and care-delivery settings. –Coordinate modernization and investment strategies to strengthen quantum-safe digital resilience and ecosystem-wide readiness: Aligning digital transformation programmes with PQC preparedness, crypto-agile design principles and co-investment in secure infrastructure and talent development reinforces data protection and builds the capabilities required for responsible adoption across the sector.5.1 Common strategic actions Quantum Technologies: Strategic Imperatives for Health and Healthcare Leaders 27

Quantum Technologies Strategic Imperatives for Health and Healthcare Leaders 2025