My field notes from conversations and sessions during HLTH Europe 2026, the leading healthtech event in Europe.
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What’s inside:
The verification layer: aiomics running on top of hospital IT to structure faxes, referrals and dictation; Guideways AI launching EU MDR Reviewer and QMS Reviewer to catch CE-submission problems before they cause delays
“Human-in-the-loop” as a product category — Roche’s Kimberly Noel pointing to Human-In-the-Loop GmbH, a company built entirely around it
EU sovereignty sold as a feature: Datum Agent as an EU-sovereign platform, iCure’s Cardinal v2 prepared for NIS-2, the AI Act and the European Health Data Space
Triage results with numbers behind them: Ada Health’s MomConnect study in South Africa, where care-seeking went from 17% to 43% across 968 participants; Tucuvi’s voice agent associated with 43.7% fewer urgent COPD admissions; Infermedica’s 1.55M-interaction analysis in Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Adherence: BrightInsight and Sanofi tracking 6,000+ specialty patients against the fact that 71% abandon therapy within a year; PACE Clinical citing 200,000 premature EU deaths and €125B in avoidable costs
Why data infrastructure, not AI, was the biggest theme on the floor
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