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Speech by Commissioner Várhelyi at the 4th EU Health Summit

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_361

Speaker: Commissioner Várhelyi

Date: Jan 28 2025 

Glossary: 

1. European Health Data Space: 유럽건강데이터공간, 유럽보건데이터공간 

2. European Action Plan: 유럽 액션 플랜

3. Pharmaceutical rules: 의약품 규제 

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Ladies and gentlemen, good evening.

European healthcare is navigating a perfect storm. Our demographics are changing.

Chronic diseases are on the rise. Healthcare costs are high – and they are only getting higher.

And we find ourselves short of healthcare professionals and critical medicines.

Not to mention the challenges facing Europe: from geopolitics to climate and the cost of living.

We can steer our way through these stormy waters if we have the right strategy, and we can come out of them stronger.

Now is the time to make the EU an innovation powerhouse again, and to reshape health for a stronger Europe.

Competitiveness and innovation are very powerful tools.

They can help us address the challenges that European healthcare is facing.

In this fast-moving world, with technology changing every aspect of our lives, Europe needs to lead with conviction. And we can.

Digital technologies are the engine powering this transformation.

Take for example cardiovascular diseases — the leading cause of premature death in Europe. Digital solutions can help to bring about smarter prevention and tailor-made treatments.

Artificial Intelligence can help us to transform biotechnology – like: Speeding up the discovery and development of life-saving therapies, analysing large amounts of genetic data, to better prevent and predict diseases, and making personalised and patient-centred medicine a reality.

With the European Health Data Space, we are creating a secure and interoperable environment to share health data. Researchers, industry leaders, and policymakers will be able to work together in ways that are unprecedented.

Accessing data securely to develop life-saving treatments and personalised medicines is key.

For Europe, this means driving scientific breakthroughs, building a unified market for digital health, and delivering technologies that improve people's lives.

The European Health Data Space can set up a new era of innovation. But innovation cannot happen without trust.

That's why we have already published the European Action Plan on the cybersecurity of hospitals and healthcare providers as a priority action very early in this new mandate.

This is our pledge to protect citizens, their data and the systems they rely on.

Cyberattacks can delay medical procedures, create gridlock in emergency rooms, and disrupt vital services.

By equipping providers with the right tools and by supporting cross-border cooperation, we can keep digital health secure and resilient.

So that patients, providers and industry can trust that innovation is built on strong foundations.

Innovation also needs the right regulatory environment.

Our pharmaceutical rules have been in place for more than 20 years. We urgently need to modernise them.

This is not only about ensuring that patients can access medicines across the EU.

It is also about making our rules fit for the future so they can support innovation.