GP surgeries in north London have launched the first NHS pilot scheme that will allow patients to book cervical appointments on WhatsApp using an AI receptionist. The scheme hopes to boost uptake for cervical screening for women after figures showed a significant drop in testing rates since the Covid pandemic. The technology involves the use of an AI receptionist, named Asa, who patients can interact with like they would with a human receptionist. Asa provides reassurance and can also answer patients’ questions relating to their appointment, but does not offer medical advice. The scheme has already been rolled out across surgeries in Islington and will soon be extended across north London. It is hoped the scheme could boost screening rates while also reducing demand for the phone line at GP surgeries. Experts say that women may often refuse cervical testing due to a lack of convenient appointments, embarrassment and concerns about pain. Less than two-thirds (62.6 per cent) of women in London were up to date with their screening for 2021/22 – well below the NHS target of 80 per cent and the lowest rate in England. #womenshealth #femtech #healthtech #digitalhealth #healthcare #healthcareinnovation #startups #innovation #health #medtech #healthcareresearch #femalehealth #genderhealthgap #reproductivehealth #venturecapital #vc #funding #investment #grants #maternalhealth #periods #menstruation #sexualhealth #sextech #menopause #fertility #pregnancy #postpartum #eggfreezing #IVF #healthequity #pelvicfloor #pelvicfloorhealth #hormonehealth
Women of Wearables (wearables, health tech & femtech)
Technology, Information and Internet
London, England 16,432 followers
Connecting businesses in digital health, health tech and femtech with opportunities to grow and succeed.
About us
WoW is a global organisation and ecosystem for female innovators and allies in health technologies providing them with community, connections and knowledge to grow their businesses and accelerate their careers.
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External link for Women of Wearables (wearables, health tech & femtech)
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- Technology, Information and Internet
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- 2-10 employees
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- London, England
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- Privately Held
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- 2016
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- Internet of Things, Wearable Tech, VR, AR, Fashion Tech, Diversity, Women in Tech, Health Tech, Fem Tech, Digital Health, Events, Mentorship, Consulting, Community Building, Healthcare, Women's Health, Venture Capital, and Investment
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Employees at Women of Wearables (wearables, health tech & femtech)
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Giordana Mahn
Patent Attorney at Fish & Richardson
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Smita A.
Disrupting breast health through 🎀iBreastExam & Selfi. Femtech Advocate. Upnotch Mentor. Cancer Life Coach. All in honor of my sister Nayana🌹who…
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Anja Streicher
Chief Marketing Officer at Women of Wearables (WoW)™ I UN Women UK Delegate CSW68 I EIC Accelerator Jury Member I
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Madison Smith
Enabling innovative companies to access funding to fuel their R&D.
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In recent years, the process of getting an intrauterine device, or IUD, has become infamous on social media. Videos of women writhing and crying while the T-shaped contraceptive device is inserted have become macabre online staples. “Unless you’re living under a rock, you’re aware of the issue,” said Dr. Beverly Gray, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Duke University. Doctors have been accused of ignoring the discomfort. For the first time, federal health officials recommended on Tuesday that physicians counsel women about pain management before the procedure. This updated guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may lead clinicians to take the pain more seriously and to consider using anesthetics more often, experts said. #womenshealth #femtech #healthtech #digitalhealth #healthcare #healthcareinnovation #startups #innovation #health #medtech #healthcareresearch #femalehealth #genderhealthgap #reproductivehealth #venturecapital #vc #funding #investment #grants #maternalhealth #periods #menstruation #sexualhealth #sextech #menopause #fertility #pregnancy #postpartum #eggfreezing #IVF #healthequity #pelvicfloor #pelvicfloorhealth #hormonehealth
Health Officials Urge Doctors to Address IUD Insertion Pain
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Some key industry events to attend this fall 👇🏽 📌 Rock Health Summit is a digital health conference that brings together diverse minds from technology, medicine, public health, and beyond for a day of inspired conversation and connection. Join the summit in San Francisco and virtually on 10 September to hear from industry leaders and professionals on the topic of ‘Aging Well in a Digital World: Technology and Equity in Senior Innovation,’ which features expert perspectives on opportunities for aging innovation and the digital tools needed to support senior communities in today’s society. 📌 Join Women’s Health Innovation Summit in Boston, 23-25 September, the Growth Engine of Women's Health: Invest, Innovate, Transform, organised by Women's Health Innovation Series and Kisaco Research 📌 Join our friends from the Royal Society of Medicine RSM Digital Health Section for this unique and insightful webinar on September 23, aiming to promote the technology workstream of the Lancet Citizens' Commission on Reimagining India's Health System and facilitate the sharing of best practices between India's Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and the UK's NHS. 📌 BioTechX USA (17-18 September) is a 2-day event taking place in Philadelphia, a thriving hub of innovation. Aiming to bring 1500 global executives, 300 speakers and 50 start-ups. WoW members and guests who work in pharma, academics, or health systems can apply for a free ticket using this link. 📌 Our friends from the Women's Health Innovation Series and Kisaco Research are delighted to invite you to Always Raising, a brand-new, exclusive, invite-only event focussing on driving innovation in women's health in the UK and beyond, taking place on October 2, 2024. Apply for your ticket here - 📌 The fifth annual HITLAB Women’s Health Tech Initiative Challenge will be taking place on October 4, 2024 📌 BioTechX EU (9 - 10 October) will return to Basel, the pharma hub of Europe, this time with 3500 global executives, 400 speakers and 50+ start-ups all under one roof. WoW members and guests who work in pharma, academics, or health systems can apply for a free ticket using this link. Check out our newsletter for more industry info and sign up to stay up to date with our community news! https://lnkd.in/eSbfAXqx #wownewsletter #wowcommunity #womenshealth #femtech #digitalhealth #healthtech #events #conferences
Rock Health Summit + other key events to attend 🧬📣; Last chance to support AVeta Medical's crowdfunding campaign 💰; Menopause 2.0 conference is back in 2025 🔥 + more
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Antimicrobial resistance happens when pathogens — microorganisms that cause disease, like viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites — stop responding to medicines. The World Bank estimates AMR could add $1tn to healthcare costs by 2050. Now, a survey by the World Health Organization suggests that women could be more exposed than men to such superbugs, thanks to a complex mix of biological, social, cultural and economic factors. It is unclear yet whether that leads to more disease among women but WHO is urging countries to pass on information on sex and gender in their monitoring of drug-resistant infections. This new perspective — that AMR risk is not the same everywhere for everyone — is valuable. Without reliable infection control, staples of modern medicine like caesarean births and hip replacements become routes to infection, disease, disability and death. Superbugs directly killed about 1.3mn in 2019. Last month, the health agency added four new pathogens to its hit list of drug-resistant bacteria. The world needs to clamp down on antimicrobial misuse, including in food production, and better incentivise R&D. But understanding who is most vulnerable and why, could also shape better policy interventions. Zlatina Dobreva and WHO colleagues in Geneva teamed up with researchers from the Global Strategy Lab at Toronto’s York University, to review the scientific literature on AMR for information on sex (defined as biological sex assigned at birth) and gender (reflecting broader social norms, such as caring responsibilities). Their findings, based on 130 papers and bankrolled by the Fleming Fund, come out officially next month but Dobreva offered a recent preview, reported in Nature. https://buff.ly/4co4t7N #AMR #healthtech #digitalhealth #healthcare #healthcareinnovation #startups #innovation #health #medtech #healthcareresearch #femtech #womenshealth #funding #investment #venturecapital #pharma #publichealth #patients #patientcare #AI #bigdata #insurance #employeebenefits #dataprivacy #datasecurity #biotech #robotics #lifesciences #telehealth #telemedicine #mentalhealth #ai #artificialintelligence #wearables #wearabletech #fda #venturecapital
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Mental health company Spring Health, cofounded by CEO April Koh and Adam Chekroud, is now valued at $3.3 billion after raising a $100 million Series E round. The round was led by growth-stage firm Generation Investment Management, with participation from some existing investors including Kinnevik, the William K. Warren Foundation, RRE, and Northzone. Spring Health was last valued at $2.5 billion during a 2023 Series D round. The AI-powered mental health startup matches patients with care providers, selling to both health plans and employers. What the company calls “precision mental healthcare” separates Spring from competitors in the digital mental health space, it says; its founding eight years ago was predicated on a research paper that found that machine learning could match people with the best care for their needs. https://buff.ly/3SHguyp #healthtech #digitalhealth #healthcare #healthcareinnovation #startups #innovation #health #medtech #healthcareresearch #femtech #womenshealth #funding #investment #venturecapital #pharma #publichealth #patients #patientcare #AI #bigdata #insurance #employeebenefits #dataprivacy #datasecurity #biotech #robotics #lifesciences #telehealth #telemedicine #mentalhealth #ai #artificialintelligence #wearables #wearabletech #fda #venturecapital
AI-powered mental health startup Spring Health boosts its valuation to $3.3 billion
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The “Pepsi challenge” of health care, as one health system executive put it, is on. In the race to test generative AI in medicine, ambient scribes — which listen in to the audio of a visit and turn it into a structured clinical note for the electronic health record — are leading the pack. And to find the right scribe at the right price, health systems are pitting them against each other. The latest update of STAT’s Generative AI tracker captures nearly 90 health systems experimenting with ambient scribes — many in small pilots, but some committing to full implementation. They span from online-only telehealth companies to federally qualified health centers, though the majority of early adopters remain large, research-focused academic medical centers, many of which are developing and marketing their own tools using generative AI. A half-dozen companies dominate AI scribe contracts with these health systems, including Microsoft’s Nuance, Nabla, and Epic-partnered Abridge. But analysis from Gartner has found more than 50 companies providing automated medical documentation for providers. In this crowded field, many health systems are pitting two and three competing products in head-to-head pilots to see which makes the cut. https://buff.ly/3SCDLBm #healthtech #digitalhealth #healthcare #healthcareinnovation #startups #innovation #health #medtech #healthcareresearch #femtech #womenshealth #funding #investment #venturecapital #pharma #publichealth #patients #patientcare #AI #bigdata #insurance #employeebenefits #dataprivacy #datasecurity #biotech #robotics #lifesciences #telehealth #telemedicine #mentalhealth #ai #artificialintelligence #wearables #wearabletech #fda #venturecapital
Health care's 'Pepsi challenge': Doctors' offices are testing AI tools in head-to-head pilots
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Kestra Medical Technologies, a Kirkland, Wash.-based company that develops cardiac monitoring technology, raised $196 million to fuel commercialization efforts. Founded a decade ago, Kestra’s Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator (WCD) has been used by more than 10,000 patients. The device provides autonomous detection and defibrillation for ventricular arrhythmias and is designed “specifically to meet the underserved needs of female cardiac patients,” according to the company. “With this funding, our team is ready to aggressively compete and accelerate our commercialization initiatives to transform the WCD market with our clinically proven system,” Brian Webster, president & CEO of Kestra Medical Technologies, said in a press release. Kestra’s system, which won FDA approval in 2021, can send an alert to Emergency Medical Services (EMS) operator after a defibrillation shock. It also features a remote care patient data platform. https://buff.ly/3YBkpk3 #wearables #wearabletech #wearabletechnology #internetofthings #AI #smartwatch #smartwatches #fitness #wellbeing #health #healthtech #digitalhealth #healthcareinnovation #healthcarewearables #sport #cardiology #sleep #medtech #healthmonitoring #healthtracking #smarttextiles #etextiles #sensors #virtualreality #augmentedreality #femtech #womenshealth #healthcare #startups #innovation #healthcareresearch #funding #investment #pharma #biotech #robotics #lifesciences #telehealth #telemedicine #ai #artificialintelligence #fda
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Small wearable or implantable electronics could help monitor our health, diagnose diseases, and provide opportunities for improved, autonomous treatments. But to do this without aggravating or damaging the cells around them, these electronics will need to not only bend and stretch with our tissues as they move, but also be soft enough that they will not scratch and damage tissues. Researchers at Stanford have been working on skin-like, stretchable electronic devices for over a decade. In a paper published March 13 in Nature, they present a new design and fabrication process for skin-like integrated circuits that are five times smaller and operate at one thousand times higher speeds than earlier versions. The researchers demonstrated that their soft integrated circuits are now able to drive a micro-LED screen and detect a braille array that is more sensitive than human fingertips. The core of the circuits are stretchable transistors made from semiconducting carbon nanotubes and soft elastic electronic materials developed in Bao’s lab. Unlike silicon, which is hard and brittle, the carbon nanotubes sandwiched between elastic materials have a fishnet-like structure that allows them to continue to function while they stretch and deform. The transistors and circuits are patterned onto a stretchable substrate, along with stretchable semiconductor, conductor, and dielectric material. #wearables #wearabletech #wearabletechnology #internetofthings #AI #smartwatch #smartwatches #fitness #wellbeing #health #healthtech #digitalhealth #healthcareinnovation #healthcarewearables #sport #cardiology #sleep #medtech #healthmonitoring #healthtracking #smarttextiles #etextiles #sensors #virtualreality #augmentedreality #femtech #womenshealth #healthcare #startups #innovation #healthcareresearch #funding #investment #pharma #biotech #robotics #lifesciences #telehealth #telemedicine #ai #artificialintelligence #fda
Advancing toward wearable stretchable electronics
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A drug that could extend women’s fertility by five years – and help them live longer in better health – is safe for a young, healthy population, according to early results of a study. The research into repurposing the immunosuppressant rapamycin has been hailed a “paradigm shift” in how menopause is studied. The Validating Benefits of Rapamycin for Reproductive Aging Treatment (Vibrant) study is designed to measure whether the drug can slow ovaries ageing, thereby delaying menopause, extending fertility and reducing the risk of age-related diseases. The study, which will eventually include more than 1,000 women, now has 34 participants aged up to 35, with more women joining every day. https://buff.ly/3LMSYMz #womenshealth #femtech #healthtech #digitalhealth #healthcare #healthcareinnovation #startups #innovation #health #medtech #healthcareresearch #femalehealth #genderhealthgap #reproductivehealth #venturecapital #vc #funding #investment #grants #maternalhealth #periods #menstruation #sexualhealth #sextech #menopause #fertility #pregnancy #postpartum #eggfreezing #IVF #healthequity #pelvicfloor #pelvicfloorhealth #hormonehealth
‘Dream come true’: study suggests drug could extend women’s fertility by five years
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In March, the first lady, Jill Biden, announced a new White House women’s health initiative that highlighted a seemingly obscure research question: What if you could delay menopause and all the health risks associated with it? The question comes from a field of research that has started to draw attention over the last few years, as scientists who study longevity and women’s health have come to realize that the female reproductive system is far more than just a baby-maker. The ovaries, in particular, appear to be connected to virtually every aspect of a woman’s health. They also abruptly stop performing their primary role in midlife. Once that happens, a woman enters menopause, which accelerates her aging and the decline of other organ systems, like the heart and the brain. While women, on average, live longer than men, they spend more time living with diseases or disabilities. The ovaries are “the only organ in humans that we just accept will fail one day,” said Renee Wegrzyn, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, a government agency tasked with steering Dr. Biden’s mission. “It’s actually kind of wild that we all just accept that.” #womenshealth #femtech #healthtech #digitalhealth #healthcare #healthcareinnovation #startups #innovation #health #medtech #healthcareresearch #femalehealth #genderhealthgap #reproductivehealth #venturecapital #vc #funding #investment #grants #maternalhealth #periods #menstruation #sexualhealth #sextech #menopause #fertility #pregnancy #postpartum #eggfreezing #IVF #healthequity #pelvicfloor #pelvicfloorhealth #hormonehealth https://buff.ly/3WmZRZK
Is Delaying Menopause the Key to Longevity?
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