
Innovation Day
21 May, 2026 | Copenhagen

Jump into the future of health
Part of Copenhagen’s Innovation Week, HIMSS Innovation Day offers a focused look at where digital health innovation truly delivers impact. Bringing together health system leaders, tech innovators, policymakers, and startups, the day spans big-picture strategy, global learning and hands-on, startup-led solutions tackling real healthcare challenges.
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Innovation Forum
A strategic platform uniting visionary leaders, innovative startups, and global stakeholders to explore forward-looking solutions and reimagine the future of healthcare.
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Startup Engagement Pavilion
A dynamic startup ecosystem exhibition space powering the next wave of healthcare solutions.
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InnovationXchange
Where startups get real answers to their biggest digital health blockers and can be discovered based on how you think, not how you pitch.
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Explore innovation across extremes
Examine how extreme environments drive creative digital health solutions, separate meaningful innovation trends from noise, and explore what it actually takes to move from promising pilots to sustainable practice in complex health systems.
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Part 1 -Â Innovation at the Edges
Health innovation often emerges where it's needed most desperately, and we’ll explore what happens when necessity drives innovation and what mainstream systems can learn from these extreme contexts.
Go inside Arctic health delivery, where geography, climate, and infrastructure constraints forced a radical rethinking of care models and patient access. Plus, evaluate current market entry barriers and strategies for navigating the increasingly complex landscape facing innovators. And go beyond buzzwords to examine what's genuinely shaping health tech in 2026.
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Part 2 - Scaling Real-World Innovation
How can we de-risk innovation adoption and create viable pathways for novel solutions to reach patients faster?
Moving from promising pilots to sustainable practice in complex health systems remains a barrier most startups struggle to overcome. Find the innovation approaches that accelerate versus hinder adoption, explore the innovation journey from concept to operational reality and learn practical lessons for moving beyond testbed environments. Through real-world examples and strategic discussion, we'll tackle what it takes to scale innovation that sticks.
Learn more about our three stages at HIMSS26 Europe in our programme

Where innovative founders take center stage
An exciting, high-visibility platform for early-stage and emerging health technology companies to shine within the European digital health ecosystem, this showcase is designed to bring innovative startups front and center and connect them with key industry stakeholders, healthcare leaders, investors and potential partners.
For startups, it’s a unique opportunity to gain exposure within a major European health tech forum, receive feedback from industry leaders, and accelerate growth through strategic connections.
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Explore the future of health
Explore cutting-edge digital health technologies and get hands-on experience with the latest, most innovative solutions transforming the future of healthcare.
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Meet founders, meet investors and buyers
Meet the founders shaping the future, connect with investors backing bold ideas, and engage with buyers ready to make things happen—all in one place.
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Build meaningful collaborations
Connect with innovators, clinicians, investors, and industry leaders who are shaping the future of care. Turn shared ideas into real partnerships that drive impact and accelerate progress.
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Speed problem-solving for real-world digital health challenges
In this problem-solving lab, digital health startups bring one pre-defined, real-world digital health problem. And investors, incubators and hospital leaders bring answers based on lived experience. Matches are designed to surface practical advice, pattern recognition, and concrete next steps, not theory.
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For startups
Get real answers to your biggest digital health blockers and be discovered based on how you think, not how you pitch.
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For health leaders
See multiple digital health startups tackling the same operational or strategic problems, influence solutions early, and identify those that truly understand healthcare workflows.
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For investors
Meet high-signal digital health startups in a problem-first setting - observe founders under pressure, hear unfiltered ecosystem perspectives, and spot investable teams faster.
5 core problem clusters
The InnovationXChange focuses on recurring problems that blocks digital health startups.
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Commercialisation & Business Models for Digital Health
Converting pilots into paid contracts.
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Buying, Budgeting & Decision Pathways
Understanding who really decides, pays, or blocks.
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Adoption and Workflow Integration
Embedding digital solutions into workflows.
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Integration, Data Access & Scaling Infrastructure
Blockers to data access and integration.
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Evidence, Regulation & Trust-Building
Uncertainty around proof, compliance, and risk.