Post by Nadejda B.

Back from the health.tech | global summit in Basel, and one idea stayed with me across very different sessions: 𝐈𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲. That came through clearly in “𝑨𝑰 𝒊𝒏 𝑯𝒐𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒔: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑩𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏” by Jorge Juan Fernández García. My main takeaway was that slow AI adoption in healthcare is not mainly a tech problem. It is a change management problem, shaped by trust, governance, workflows, and whether organisations are actually ready to integrate these tools into daily practice. I saw the same pattern again in “𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝑵𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔 𝑹𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝑵𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒖𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈” with contributions from Michelangelo Canzoneri, Maria Grahm, Timo Kistner, moderated by Olaf Zweig. What stayed with me there was that smart production is not built all at once. It happens step by step: introducing specific technologies, learning how they work in practice, and only then integrating them into broader systems like digital twins and smarter manufacturing environments. What surprised me most, though, was the pace of progress in neuroscience. Both Frank Desiere - PhD MBA in “𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒘𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒅𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑵𝒆𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔” and Dr. Clemens Fischer in “𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏-𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎 𝑯𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉” made one thing very clear: a lot of what still sounds futuristic is already entering real clinical and technological reality. What I appreciated most about the summit was exactly this contrast - bold innovation on one side, and the very practical question of execution on the other. I left impressed by the technology, but even more aware that progress in healthcare depends on whether organisations can absorb change as fast as innovation creates new possibilities. Grateful for the experience, the conversations, and the perspectives. #healthtechglobalsummit2026 #htgs26 #healthtech