eMedLab is a digital health and medical informatics research group at Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) informally connecting Centre for Digital Health and Business Information Technology researchers of the School of IT, led by Professor Peeter Ross and Dr Gunnar Piho.

The group brings together over twenty researchers, focusing on the challenges and opportunities of person-owned and fully controlled health and medical data. Their work explores issues such as re-engineering healthcare workflows, designing new digital service models, data structuring and standardization, data quality, data custody, security and privacy, transparency and integrity, data interoperability, and anonymisation and pseudonymisation, with particular attention to how these aspects shape the primary (health services and medical treatment) and secondary (medical research, public health, healthcare financing, policy-making and AI-driven analytics) use of health data within the European Health Data Space.

The group was established in 2020 with the admission of five PhD students, funded through the IT Academy research project, which supports research in AI, machine learning, data science, and robotics. eMedLab is a member of two research consortia, Digital Health for a Whole and Healthy Society and Medication Adherence and Treatment Efficacy in Patients with Dyslipidaemia), enabling it to continue its work with the existing team and expand to include up to thirteen new PhD students.

By investigating new models for secure and interoperable health data management and digital health service provision, eMedLab aims to contribute to a future where individuals, rather than institutions, are the primary custodians of their personal health information and co-designers of digital health services. Through its research, the group seeks to support the development of ethically responsible and technically robust frameworks that balance privacy, accessibility, and societal benefit.