HealTAC 2026 will feature two workshops on Monday 8 June 2026. These will be run in one after the other, so that delegates can attend both.

Workshops

Free-text healthcare data and Trusted Research Environments (TREs)

A full-day workshop on secure, trustworthy, and scalable use of healthcare free-text data in Trusted Research Environments (TREs), featuring the STAR-TRE, FORTRESS-TeHR, TRExt, and SAFETEXT initiatives.

From patient narratives to insights: applying text analytics to scalable lived experience data for new discoveries

An interactive two-hour workshop exploring how text analytics can be applied to patient-reported narratives and lived experience data at scale, through collaboration across NLP, behavioural science, qualitative research, PPIE, and policy communities.