Working with health data means living with complexity every day — regulatory, operational, and technical. Especially in Europe, where GDPR has set strict rules on privacy, consent, and data use.

As a European MedTech expert with two decades of hands-on experience, I’ll share what GDPR really means when you're in the field: what can (and can't) be done with health data, and the operational realities that follow — from anonymization hurdles, to mapping between coding systems, to handling massive, messy, unstructured clinical data.

Finally, we'll look ahead to the European Health Data Space (EHDS): a promising shift towards easier, more compliant access to health data — but still with major technical and governance challenges ahead.

A realistic, no-hype talk for those who want to understand where regulation meets innovation, and what it takes to make health data truly usable.

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Takeways:
1. Understand how GDPR regulations practically impact health data collection and processing across Europe.
2. Identify the real-world technical challenges in structuring health data: anonymization, coding mapping, volume management, and unstructured data handling.
3. Gain a clear view of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) initiative and what it changes for healthcare innovation and data access.