The Digital Omnibus has once again postponed the substantive requirements of the AI Regulation—known in English as the AI Act, or Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 on Artificial Intelligence—for high-risk AI in the healthcare sector, now to no later than August 2, 2028. At first glance, this sounds like a relief. However, a new economic study by Wiens and Dieler shows that for small medical AI companies, the exact opposite is true.