Morgan Stanley's 24th Annual Global Healthcare Conference ran in New York from Monday 14 to roughly Wednesday 16 September 2026, drawing around 3,000 investors and executives across biopharma, biotech, medtech and health services. Company sessions were the usual fireside-chat format with live webcasts: Merck's CEO Robert Davis and R&D head Dean Li spoke on the Monday, and Tuesday featured Amgen (Jay Bradner and CFO Thomas Dittrich), AbbVie, STERIS, Sight Sciences and others,

The European Union has embarked on an ambitious regulatory effort to establish digital and data sovereignty across critical economic sectors. At the centre of this strategy lies the European Health Data Space (EHDS) Regulation (EU) 2025/327 which officially entered into force on March 26th, 2025. By creating a single market for electronic health data, the European Commission seeks to empower citizens, streamline cross-border clinical care and unleash secondary health data re