This report provides strategic foresight into five dominant mega trends shaping the European HealthTech and MedTech landscape for 2026. The year marks a critical nexus where groundbreaking technological acceleration meets definitive regulatory enforcement, primarily through the EU AI Act and the European Health Data Space (EHDS) regulation.

The Ambient Clinical Intelligence (ACI) sector, powered by Ambient Voice Technology (AVT), has transitioned rapidly from a nascent concept to a primary focus for large-scale venture capital deployment within enterprise healthcare. The underlying technology, rooted in Generative AI (GenAI), is fundamentally disrupting clinical workflows, promising to alleviate the persistent crisis of physician burnout driven by administrative documentation burden.