Unlocking Europe’s health data: a new opportunity for global innovation

Across Europe, vast amounts of health data are generated every day through medical imaging, clinical registries and research databases. Yet much of its potential remains untapped.

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Turning health data into real-world impact

Recoding Medicine focuses on developing high-quality datasets and demonstrating how they can be applied to address pressing healthcare challenges.Participants are invited to make health data more accessible through AI while developing practical applications with clinical relevance. Potential areas include:

Earlier and more accurate diagnostics

Discovery of biomarkers

Clinical decision-support tools

New approaches to drug development

Personalised and preventive healthcare

The ambition is not only to advance technology, but to create solutions that can make a tangible difference for patients and healthcare systems.

A strong foundation for international collaboration

Sweden offers a unique environment for initiatives of this kind. Long-standing investments in research, life science, digitalisation and public-private collaboration have created strong conditions for developing data-driven health innovations.

Recoding Medicine also highlights the growing importance of international collaboration. By connecting innovators, researchers, healthcare professionals and technology experts across borders, the initiative aims to accelerate breakthroughs that no single actor could achieve alone.

Beyond funding: access to expertise and networks

The challenge is organised in several phases, with the most promising teams progressing through successive development stages.Participants gain access not only to funding opportunities but also to an international network of experts in medicine, artificial intelligence, data governance and innovation.The goal is to turn research and technological advances into scalable solutions with both clinical and commercial potential, while creating knowledge and resources that strengthen Europe's wider innovation ecosystem.

Looking for partners?

To support new collaborations, an international matchmaking event will take place in Stockholm on 17 September, 15:00-18:00.The event brings together organisations with access to health data, AI and research teams, clinical experts, and specialists in legal and data governance issues. It offers an opportunity to explore new partnerships and build multidisciplinary teams for the Recoding Medicine challenge. The event will be held in English and is open to both Swedish and international participants. Interested in joining?