By the time a subsector has a Kearney report, the entry multiple has already moved. Here's what's crossing our desk now. The macroeconomic landscape for European healthcare technology has undergone a structural transformation. The speculative capital deployment into unintegrated point solutions that characterised the zero-interest-rate era has given way to an environment focused on unit economics, real-world clinical evidence, regulatory defensibility and deep workflow integr

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.

Closed-loop Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) represents a profound evolution within bioelectronic medicine, transitioning from static, pre-programmed therapies to adaptive, personalised interventions.