Like a well-engineered building designed to withstand pressure and evolve over time, Hospital IT must mirror the professionals it supports. Adapting quickly to every challenge, supercharging outcomes, and transforming patient care across the board. As healthtech reinforces the foundations of this hypothesised Nirvana brick by brick, how do we tackle the integration of these building blocks with existing systems?

AI is helping healthcare set sail into uncharted waters, with data the wind in our sails and the potential treasure on the horizon seemingly limitless. But can healthcare keep its compass true when it comes to ethics, equity and fairness?

Quickly now, quickly! There's limited room. Step aboard the HLTH Europe time machine as we whizz into the near future. A future where cutting-edge technology, data-driven innovation, and human-centred care converge to redefine healthcare globally.

• Navigate these new landscapes with us, as health systems synchronise like never before. Picture AI-driven pathways, rippling through time like the butterfly effect - each and every tiny step sparking future waves of transformation across the globe. The future of healthcare is here, where every decision echoes into a healthier tomorrow.

Breaking down barriers. Tearing down walls. Removing roadblocks. The language around equity is as bombastic as it is imperative. But equity without access is merely an ideal; it is only through genuine, actionable steps to transform access to care for all that these crucial issues can truly be addressed.

Healthcare needs regulation. Healthcare needs innovation. Two sentences we can all agree on. Two sentences that can sometimes seem diametrically opposed. Where does the balance lie between tech’s propensity to move fast and break things, and the system's rightfully rigorous rules?

In June 2023 an EU study revealed that nearly half the EU population - 46% - had experienced emotional or psychosocial issues, such as depression and anxiety, within the previous year. With resources at breaking point, hear from the providers, systems and innovators finding new ways to summit the mental health mountain.

There are few things as simultaneously daunting and thrilling as starting something new. Launching an idea from the safe womb of hypothesis into the chaos of infanthood. But with careful nurturing, you’ll watch as your idea grows. Slowly at first, ever so slowly. Then accelerating. Fast. Rapid, blinding, giddy growth. And then…well that’s the question. How to scale? If launch is chaos, scaling can be calamity.