Artificial Intelligence and Health Technology Assessment

20 February 2026 | 09.00–13.30 | University Innsbruck – Brenner Archiv – Josef-Hirn Strasse 5/10th floor

Idea & Program

The health care sector—both public and private—is one of the key domains in which new AI-based applications are already being developed and will continue to emerge. At the same time, it is a field in which ethical standards and questions of trustworthiness, safety, responsibility, and reliability are of utterly importance.

The workshop will explore how trustworthy AI inspections—still a relatively new approach that has evolved alongside the recent success of widely deployed AI applications—and classical Health Technology Assessment (HTA) can complement one another. We aim to develop concepts capable of addressing the manifold challenges posed by the introduction of new AI technologies in health care.

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Program

09.00 Introduction: HTA and Trustworthy AI – Robert Simon (University Bolzano, EUPHUR)

09.15 HTA and the Role of Real-World-Evidence, Causal Inference, Modeling and AI – Uwe Siebert (UMIT Tirol)

10.00 Engineering Clinical AI Systems: Research and Clinical Practice – Paolo Giorgini (University Trento)

10.45 Bias, Patient Empowerment und digitale Ungleichheit in der Gesundheits-KI: Erste Ergebnisse eines Scoping Reviews– Lisa-Maria Norz (UMIT Tirol)

*** Coffee break ***

12.00 Adaptive Computerised Cognitive Training Based on Artificial Intelligence – Floriano Zini (University Bolzano)

12.45 Documentation for Clinical Trials: How Regulations and Tools Impact Research Methods – Joseph Wang-Kathrein (University Innsbruck)

Scientific director: Robert Simon