Poland has formally committed to joining the HealthAI Global Regulatory Network (GRN), the worldwide platform that links health regulators working on the safe deployment of artificial intelligence in medicine. The commitment, announced on Thursday, makes Poland the second European Union member state after Portugal to sign up, and it comes as the EU AI Act moves into full effect across the bloc.
The commitment is set out in a memorandum of understanding between Poland’s Ministry of Health and HealthAI, the Geneva-based agency that runs the network. Deputy Minister of Health Tomasz Maciejewski signed for Poland alongside HealthAI chief executive Dr Ricardo Baptista Leite.
What Poland Has Signed Up To
The MoU formalises Poland’s intention to pursue full GRN membership and launches a structured cooperation programme to prepare the country for accession. Reuters reports that the agreement establishes a one-year cooperation framework, and a HealthAI spokesperson said there is no fixed timeline for Poland’s potential accession beyond that framework.
Along the accession path, Polish officials will join the Leadership Group of HealthAI’s Community of Practice for government and regulatory authorities, which the agency says brings together governments from 30 countries for peer exchange. HealthAI and the Polish ministry will also jointly organise a convening in Poland for governmental, regulatory, academic, clinical and innovation stakeholders to build national alignment on responsible AI in health.
What GRN Members Get
The Global Regulatory Network gives member regulators access to AI healthcare tools that have been reviewed by regulators, plus a real-time warning system for sharing reports of harmful incidents involving medical AI. Its current members include Britain, India, Brazil, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Zambia and Peru, with Portugal until now the only EU state in the group.
“The Government of Poland’s expressed intention to join HealthAI’s GRN reflects a forward-looking commitment to international collaboration and alignment, ensuring that innovation in AI translates into better health outcomes,” Baptista Leite said. “It marks a significant step for Poland, and for Europe.”
The European Governance Moment
Reuters notes the commitment comes as Europe rolls out new AI rules amid growing concern over unpredictable AI behaviour — a reference to the string of incidents this year in which models acted outside their operators’ intentions. HealthAI frames the timing in similar terms: the EU AI Act is entering into full effect just as health systems across the continent accelerate their integration of AI-powered tools, and Poland’s early engagement signals an ambition to help shape global health-AI governance rather than simply respond to it.
The agency also points to what Poland brings to the network: a rapidly growing health-tech ecosystem, strong clinical research infrastructure and a longstanding tradition of medical excellence, which it says position the country to become a central voice in shaping international norms for safe, effective and equitable AI in health. The network itself is explicitly built so that no region is left behind in that norm-setting, HealthAI says.
Why It Matters
Poland joining the GRN matters because health is where AI regulation stops being abstract: diagnostic and clinical tools fall into the EU AI Act’s high-risk class, and the bloc’s member states are building supervisory machinery — the EU AI Act’s enforcement model — at different speeds. A shared incident-warning system means a harmful medical AI failure spotted in one member country can be flagged to the rest in real time, which no purely national regulator can replicate. Poland’s move also deepens the European presence in a network otherwise dominated by non-EU states, just as Brussels is recalibrating its digital rulebook and governments worldwide are comparing AI law regimes. For Polish health-tech companies, accession work means their home regulator will be testing products against the same frameworks used by regulators on four continents.
Background
HealthAI, which styles itself the Global Agency for Responsible AI in Health, was founded in Geneva to help governments build governance for medical AI, and its Global Regulatory Network has grown country by country as regulators looked for shared validation and incident-sharing outside the slower treaty process; the Poland MoU was drafted earlier this year at the AIMed 2026 conference in Kraków, one of Central Europe’s largest gatherings on AI and health.
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