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As workforce shortages in healthcare continue to worsen, particularly in primary care and nursing, the demand for a resilient, skilled and adaptable healthcare workforce has never been greater.

The European Health Data Space marks a major milestone in EU-wide health data sharing, aiming to empower citizens and enable secure, interoperable digital healthcare.

Healthcare providers face significant challenges in pathology. By enabling more efficient, collaborative workflows, digital pathology solutions can help them transition from legacy analogue processes and address the shortage of trained pathologists.

Despite years of investment, many hospitals remain digitally fragmented. A command centre approach offers a practical way forward, integrating data and decision-making in real time to enhance operational and surgical performance – and patient care.

AI is steadily reshaping healthcare with promising advances, but significant challenges to broader adoption still must be overcome.

Managing the cybersecurity risk of growing numbers of connected medical devices with minimal disruption to patient care is a balancing act. As vulnerabilities also increase, the need for network level end-to-end risk management is greater than ever.

Endoscopy plays a critical role in early cancer detection and avoiding open surgery. But a combination of overburdened healthcare staff and fragmented workflows means endoscopy departments need greater interoperability to improve patient outcomes.

Smaller countries face unique challenges in innovation procurement. Recent European initiatives and programmes look to improve access to procurement tools and foster knowledge sharing across borders.

The EHDS promises to advance access to large data sets for research and public health decisions – and ideally enable personalised patient care. AIDAVA was launched to make the latter possible by helping curate and publish individual health data using AI.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the organization will be reintegrated into the UK Department of Health and Social Care within two years. The agency pledges to reinvest cost savings into frontline services.