ICUdata4EU Featured at Euroanaesthesia 2026

ICUdata4EU was presented at Euroanaesthesia 2026 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, one of Europe’s leading congresses in anaesthesiology and intensive care. During the event, Martin Weibrecht from Clinomic highlighted the importance of unlocking cross-border health data to power life-saving medical innovation and build a resilient, data-driven European Health Union. The ICUdata4EU project serves as the pioneering real-world blueprint for such a framework in critical care, practically demonstrating how decentralized, sovereignty-preserving technologies can securely bridge institutional clinical operations with European-scale scientific discovery..

The presentation was part of the ESAIC Research Committee’s ‘European Research‘ session, which brought together several EU-funded initiatives and offered participants insights into how collaborative research projects are advancing clinical practice across Europe.

Under the title "Data-driven intensive care medicine: from digitalization and artificial intelligence", Martin Weibrecht explored current opportunities and challenges associated with the increasing use of health data in critical care. The talk addressed technologies for aggregating and sharing clinical information and introduced ICUdata4EU as an initiative supporting secure and interoperable data exchange in intensive care settings.

The session also highlighted how telemedical approaches are contributing to a shift from reactive to proactive models of expertise sharing in intensive care medicine, enabling healthcare professionals to benefit from data-driven insights and cross-institutional collaboration.

A central focus was the European Health Data Space (EHDS) and what it means for secondary use of health data in practice. The presentation covered how the ICUdata4EU approach fits into the EHDS framework and touched on several key principles: data sovereignty, regulatory compliance and cybersecurity.

Martin Weibrecht followed with an overview of ICUdata4EU's design principles and architecture — specifically how ethical compliance, local data control and institutional workflows are handled in practice. Attendees got a sense of the project's geographical scope — hospitals across Portugal, Romania, Latvia, Greece and beyond — and the range of stakeholders involved, from academic medical centres and community hospitals to academic and industrial digital health innovators and professional associations.

Participating in events like Euroanaesthesia puts ICUdata4EU in direct conversation with the clinicians, researchers and technology partners shaping the future of intensive care in Europe — and keeps the project visible within the broader research community. The team also shared their ambitions for a broader European rollout and made clear that new partners are welcome to join.

Learn more about ICUdata4EU and follow our progress towards a smarter, data-enabled future in intensive care!