Think Tank

World-class ideas are wasted if the world isn’t ready for them.

The EIT Health Think Tank – our thought leadership forum – brings healthcare leaders together to prepare the ground for life-changing innovation and identify the next opportunity for a step-change in how healthcare is delivered. We collaborate across disciplines and borders to explore and assess the most pressing topics impacting healthcare innovation today.

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Healthcare system resilience and sustainability

Innovation can enhance health systems by improving disease prevention, enabling personalised medicine and increasing access to care.

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Digital health transformation in Europe

We crystallise discussion about the potential for regulatory frameworks to accelerate the development of, and improve citizens’ access to, digital health innovations throughout Europe.

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Implementing the European Health Data Space

We pinpoint specific challenges key actors may face in implementing the European Health Data Space and makes recommendations as to how these can be overcome.

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Blood-based cancer screening

Blood-based cancer screening is a groundbreaking healthcare innovation with the potential to transform cancer detection across Europe.

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Artificial intelligence in healthcare

Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides huge potential to remodel healthcare. We’re focusing on the changes needed to fully embrace AI; from workforce efficiency to healthcare organisation and system integration, so that healthcare systems can reap the rewards offered by AI and improve their sustainability.

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Optimising innovation pathways

Innovative ideas, products and services often require new approaches to help them to reach patients and citizens. We’re identifying the barriers and opportunities now, to streamline innovation pathways and speed-up market entry for emerging solutions.

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Value-based healthcare

Value-based healthcare (VBHC) offers a rethink in the way that healthcare providers pay for resources such as medicines and equipment. VBHC helps create more efficient and sustainable healthcare models by moving away from volume-based payment and towards results-orientated payment.

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Using big data to improve healthcare

Health data now comprises large and complex digital datasets. By meticulously collecting and managing data securely, we can gain profound insight into diseases, which will improve healthcare in many ways; from predicting epidemics to avoiding preventable deaths from chronic disease.

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Healthcare system resilience and sustainability
Digital health transformation in Europe
Implementing the European Health Data Space
Blood-based cancer screening
Artificial intelligence in healthcare
Optimising innovation pathways
Value-based healthcare
Using big data to improve healthcare

How do we explore these topics?

We explore them through meaningful dialogue with both internal and external experts in the respective fields. To facilitate this dialogue and its findings, EIT Health drives a range of activities; from our Round Table Series, to publications, opinion pieces and discussion videos.

Through our Round Table Series we invite multidisciplinary regional and national leaders in healthcare to discuss a topic high on the European health innovation agenda. Research gathered throughout this process is collated with Round Table discussions and published as reports.

What’s new in Think Tank?

EIT Health has launched a new pan-European Think Tank initiative focused on the transformative potential of blood-based cancer screening (BBCS). Currently underway, this multi-stakeholder project is exploring how emerging multi-cancer early detection (MCED) tests – which use simple blood samples to detect multiple cancers – could be integrated into population-based screening programmes. As part of the initiative, a series of regional roundtable discussions are being held across Europe to capture local insights, challenges, and policy contexts. By engaging experts, policymakers, healthcare professionals, and patient representatives, the project aims to generate actionable recommendations that support earlier diagnosis, improved outcomes, and equitable access – in alignment with Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan.

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