healthcare.digital October 12, 2025
The European HealthTech Inflection Point of 2026
This report provides strategic foresight into five dominant mega trends shaping the European HealthTech and MedTech landscape for 2026. The year marks a critical nexus where groundbreaking technological acceleration meets definitive regulatory enforcement, primarily through the EU AI Act and the European Health Data Space (EHDS) regulation.
Success in 2026 will be defined by strategic regulatory compliance, the adoption of interoperable data standards (Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership, or OMOP, and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, or FHIR), and the effective leveraging of EU strategic funding (European Defence Fund, or EDF, and Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform, or STEP).
The European HealthTech Ecosystem: Navigating the 2026 Regulatory Convergence
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