Q04 · Tools & LanguagesTrial◌ NewHorizon: 12-18 mo

Agent & Tool Protocols for Health Data Access

Emerging standards for how clinical agents discover and call health-data tools safely.

Standardising how agents request and are granted access to sensitive health data and systems is becoming a prerequisite for scaling agentic workflows safely in regulated environments.

Agent & Tool Protocols across other industries

Emerging standards for how agents discover tools, call them and talk to each other.

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From the Healthcare & Life Sciences Emerging Technology & Innovation Radar, Edition 2026.1, published 2026-10-01.

An independent, industry-agnostic radar curated by Shailesh Kumar.