Just as in 2025, top of the agenda in 2026 is everything that surrounds the launch of the European Health Data Space (EHDS).
In addition, European health and care continue to face many concrete immediate and long-term challenges. Systems and services are experiencing difficulties in dealing with a large number of threats, including handling major health conditions and diseases, facing ongoing epidemics, dealing with population shifts and changes, and needing to manage and organise upskilling and reskilling.
What is EHTEL doing in 2026?
Maintaining the approach initiated on the occasion of our 25th anniversary, EHTEL's emphasis in 2026 remains on implementation, deployment, and what implementers need. EHTEL’s Imagining 2029 work programme is therefore structured in three tracks. They build on earlier work developed by EHTEL.
The three tracks are on:
☑️ In 2026, EHTEL will also be also present at, and involved in, a number of important European events and conferences. The EHTEL Thought Leader Symposium was fully embedded in the 2026 Radical Health Festival Helsinki - a leading international event focused on digital health innovation and transformation.
What's in it for me?
For EHTEL members and the entire EHTEL community:
🎓 Knowledge-sharing on real and do-able implementation strategies, including in change management and capacity-building, through webinars and workshops open to all.
🏛️ Engagement with European institutions and initiatives on the topic of the EHDS.
💡Answers to your questions from digital health experts.
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⚜️ Additional activities for members only: 🤝 Personalised opportunities to network, match-make on EU-funded projects, develop partnerships, and get together with a select group of organisations which are getting things done in digital health. 📝 Precious front-row insights into EHDS policy and implementation through active involvement of implementers in a European Health Data Space (EHDS) Implementers' Task Force 📣 Getting implementers’ voices heard through a range of policy-related Partnerships. 🌟 Showcasing your work to other organisations in the EHTEL community. |
Many of EHTEL's events are open to all. However, throughout 2026, EHTEL will be especially active with a set of members-only activities: check out the EHTEL Members' Workspace to access materials and calls limited to EHTEL members only.
We encourage you to approach us about these activities and events, even if you aren’t an EHTEL member yet. Or simply, join EHTEL.
Your own involvement and engagement in these important moves forward throughout the year are strongly welcomed!
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EHTEL remains conscious of its environmental commitments. Besides organising and attending some physical meetings, it continues with a green approach to meeting organisation in 2026 when it is holding a mix of physical meetings, virtual meetings, and hybrid meetings. Increasingly, the work of some of EHTEL members is moving towards the implications of environmentalism and sustainability for health and care.
