The real opportunity for AI in healthcare is the work that eats hours of skilled staff time today: writing up the clinical note after each consultation, reading scanned reports sent from other hospitals, finding the current protocol, or preparing data for a study. Today's open models handle these tasks well, provided they run close to the data on GPUs fast enough to answer during the consultation rather than the next day.
The problem is where they run. Health data is a special category under the GDPR and needs stronger safeguards. Sending medical records to an API hosted outside the EU raises questions about international transfers, access by foreign authorities and reuse for model training that no ethics committee or data protection officer wants to answer. That is why so many healthcare AI projects never get past the pilot.
Regulation is moving too. The European Health Data Space (EHDS) sets rules for secondary use of data in research, the AI Act treats AI software that qualifies as a medical device under the MDR as high-risk, and Spain's ENS (Esquema Nacional de Seguridad, the National Security Framework) still applies to public health services. We track every deadline in our regulatory radar. As a Spanish operator with its own hardware in Madrid, we give you an environment where you know where every piece of data sits, who accesses it and how to leave, at published prices.