Developing and deploying AI solutions in healthcare involves strict requirements in terms of safety, reliability, and compliance. Organisations must ensure that their technologies meet regulatory standards, protect sensitive data, and deliver clinically relevant outcomes.
Accessing real-world testing environments, validating performance in clinical settings, and navigating regulatory frameworks can be complex and resource-intensive. For many innovators, demonstrating trust, safety, and impact is a key barrier to adoption.
TEF-Health addresses these challenges by providing specialised testing and experimentation facilities for AI in healthcare. It enables organisations to validate their solutions in realistic clinical environments, ensuring safety, compliance, and readiness for market deployment.
Browse the TEF-Health service catalogue
You can access TEF-Health through multiple entry points:
- Direct access via the TEF-Health website
- Participation in dedicated open calls launched by TEF-Health
- Contact the TEF directly via the CitCom.AI website and network partner
- Use the CoordinaTEF Helpdesk to receive guidance and be redirected to the most relevant TEF or service
- Through events, webinars, and ecosystem activities
- Before starting detailed discussions, an Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) agreement is signed to ensure confidentiality and trust between parties.
- Identify and select the services that best match your needs in the TEF-Health Catalogue of Services
- Register on the platform and submit a service request (including potential access to discounts, where applicable)
Following your request, a matchmaking process is initiated where you will be connected with a relevant service provider and together, you assess whether your needs and their capabilities align and finally you proceed towards defining and agreeing on the service(s)
- Your contract is then defined and signed
Once the contract is in place, you actively engage in the testing and validation process:
- Deployment and testing of your solution in real or simulated clinical environments
- Execution of validation activities, including performance testing, robustness checks, and integration assessment
- Iterative feedback loops through regular technical meetings and reviews
- Continuous support to refine and optimise your solution based on test results
The final phase focuses on consolidating results and exploring next steps:
- Review and validate the final outcomes of the service
- Provide feedback on the overall service experience
- Contribute to use cases or success stories showcasing your results
- Explore opportunities for further collaboration, scaling, or market uptake
Further
opportunities
After completing your journey with a TEF, several pathways can open up.
These may include further services within the same or another TEF, redirection to EDIHs for deployment support or access to complementary EU initiatives, such as AI Factories, Data Spaces, and skills programmes.
Solution further development
- Industrial deployment
- Product / service integration
- VC round / funding
Further TEF’s services
- Re-testing iteration
- Regulatory path (e.g. CE marking)
EU AI Innovation ecosystem
- EDIHs
- AI Act Service Desk
- AI factories
- AIoD Platform
- AI Skills Academy
- AI Regulatory Sandboxes
Go-to-market
- Client piloting / procurement
Ready to start your journey with TEF-Health?
Explore specialised services for healthcare, supporting the testing, validation, and compliance of AI solutions in clinical settings.
