AI4Health.Cro took part in the European Digital Innovation Hubs Conference 2026 in Bratislava, joining European partners to discuss how digital innovation hubs can better support healthcare institutions, startups, SMEs and researchers working with AI and digital health solutions.
For healthtech innovators, access to testing, data, expertise and trusted partners is often just as important as the technology itself. That was one of the key messages AI4Health.Cro brought to the European Digital Innovation Hubs Conference 2026, held in Bratislava and organised by SAPIE Slovakia within the CapTTict project, alongside SAPIE Forum 2026.
The conference provided an opportunity for AI4Health.Cro to share what we have learned so far through our work as a European Digital Innovation Hub focused on artificial intelligence in healthcare and medicine.
The AI4Health.Cro team presented practical experience from several areas: how Test Before Invest works in real-world settings, how education can be structured for different user groups, and what it takes to organise a datathon around real challenges in healthcare.
These are increasingly important questions for organisations developing or adopting AI-based solutions in the health sector. For startups and SMEs, the challenge is often how to test a solution before making major investments. For healthcare institutions, it is how to work with digital innovation in a way that is secure, useful and aligned with real clinical needs. For researchers and public sector stakeholders, the question is how to connect expertise, data and infrastructure in a way that can lead to practical outcomes.
