HealthTech companies use technology to improve the care delivery and consumption. We shortlisted 35 European HealthTech companies to better understand how they are revolutionizing our economies and divided them in 8 categories: 1) Service Search: companies using technology to improve doctors search, 2) Medical Big Data: companies providing big data analytics for medical application, 3) Monitoring: companies offering platforms to offer patients major insights about their health, 4) Genomics: using human genome for analytics and prevention, 5) Health and Wellness: companies creating health-related apps for keeping track of fitness activities, 6) Gamification: companies using game elements to promote health, 7) Devices: companies manufacturing a new generation of IT medical devices, 8) TeleHealth: companies allowing remote communication between patients and doctors.
01 HEALTHCARE SERVICE SEARCH
01.Careship
Careship was founded in 2015 by Antonia and Nikolaus Albert from a very personal experience. Its mission is to support seniors, families and caregivers with individual support offers, care advice and hourly relief in order to create more joie de vivre together.Careship assist its clients to find the right caregiver for their loved ones for various needs (eg. to keep company, help at home, recreational purposes etc.)
Country: Germany
02.Medigo
Medigo connects patients with doctors globally. It improves access to healthcare for people everywhere: the easy to use platform helps patients to get medical second opinions and to schedule affordable, high quality medical treatment abroad. Medico relies on more than 1,000 trusted hospitals and clinics, thousands of expert doctors, and an experienced patient Care Team.
Country: Germany
03.Ottonova
Understanding German healthcare system is not easy: Ottonova makes it simples for expats to find the right insurance and signing up, to schedule appointments and figure out the reimbursement process. Ottonova app allows its users to get it touch easily with a personal Concierge Team 24/7 who will help them to schedule appointments and guide through the German healthcare system.
Country: Germany
04. Doctolib
Doctolib is the #1 online and mobile booking platform and management software provider for doctors in Europe working with 45 000 health practitioners, present in 1000 health facilities and used by 16 million patients each month. For doctors it offers is a full-range service to improve bookings management, reduce no show and bring new patients to the office. For patients, Doctolib is a free online service to find a nearby health practitioner and book doctor or dentist appointments 24/24 and 7/7 within a few clicks.
Country: France
02 MEDICAL BIG DATA
05.Doctrin
Doctrin mission is to radically improve healthcare. Doctrin strives to improve medical quality and the patient experience while making sure healthcare resources are used more efficiently: it provides decision support systems and communication tools to healthcare providers. The app allows patients to contact their doctor 24/7 and access their medical history.
Country: Sweden
06.Ada Health
Ada Health mission is to bring the future of personalized care to everyone.
Founded in 2011 by a team of doctors, scientists and engineers, Ada offers an AI-powered health platform, supported by a sophisticated medical knowledge base covering thousands of symptoms and conditions, that asks simple, relevant questions and compares answers to thousands of similar cases to help finding possible explanations for the symptoms.
Country: Germany
07.Your.MD
Your.MD is a free service that helps users to find safe health information so they can make the best choices for their health. Your.MD uses an AI system designed to understand individual situations and personal factors, receive medically certified guidance, and discover the best available next step options via OneStop Health™.Your.MD has an ongoing partnership with Samsung Health and the NHS.
Country: Norway
08.Inato
Inato was founded in Paris in 2015. Inato automates data structuring and analysis, cross checks data sources, and provides insights on this data. Inato offers a tool for collecting and analyzing data used in clinical trials. Its AI-powered platform allows pharmaceutical companies drastically reduce drug development costs. Thanks to faster clinical trials, Inato helps new therapies arrive to patients faster, and at lower prices.
Country: France
09.Heartbeat
Heartbeat ONE supports medical professionals in the preparation, documentation and evaluation of medical interventions Unlike traditional systems, heartbeat ONE incorporates patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in its analysis, thus offering precise outcome management.
Country: Germany
10.AMRA
AMRA is an international digital health company and the first in the world to transform images from a rapid, 6-minute whole body MRI scan into precise, 3D-volumetric fat and muscle measurements.
AMRA’s cloud-based analysis service offers precise, automated insights that have far-reaching implications for the pharmaceutical industry, academic R&D and, soon, clinical practice.
Country: Sweden
03 HEALTH MONITORING AND INSIGHTS
11.Clue
Clue is a startup founded in Germany in 2013. Clue uses science and data to provide insights into female health. Its goal is to give people a way to track and discover the unique patterns in their cycle.Clue Connect is an app that provides a simple and secure way to share information about menstrual cycle to partners, friends and family making it easier to open up the conversation about periods, fertility and health.
Country: Germany
12.Oviva
Oviva offers nutritional counseling and was founded in 2013.It is a dietetics service provider using technology to improve the way we treat diet related diseases. Oviva delivers intensive intervention programmes tailored to the needs of each individual to achieve gold-standard clinical benefit at lower cost to the healthcare system. To make nutritional counseling more effective Oviva offers a developed a smartphone technology that allows users to stay in contact with their coach between sessions. It also facilitates data collection of meals, activities and weight development.
Country: Switzerland
13.Amicomed
Amicomed is a cloud-based platform to support physicians in blood pressure management. The platform combines innovative remote monitoring, through unprecedented data analysis, with an actionable and personalized lifestyle intervention (daily diet, activity, and blood pressure measurement scheduling). The service is fully automated thanks to proprietary algorithms. Aimed at physicians, yet designed with consumer in mind.
Country: Italy
14. M-Sense
M-sense is a certified medical app to combat migraines and headache. Its goal is to reduce 50% of headache days through a personalized therapy program – all in-app. Alongside the development of software algorithms for the early recognition of attacks, we are working on mobile therapy methods for sufferers. Our first product is the headache and migraine app M-sense, which is available at the German Google Play Store and the Apple App Store.
Country: Germany
15.Ava
Ava was born because women deserve a more modern method of tracking their cycles and their health at every phase of life. They deserve accurate, reliable data about their fertility, about pregnancy, and how their cycle fits into the bigger picture of their health—delivered in a way that’s convenient and non-invasive.
Country: Switzerland
04 GENOMICS
16. Project Shivom
Project Shivom is powering the next era of genomics and precision medicine by combiningblockchain, A.I., DNA sequencing & cryptography.Shivom offers a platform called The OmiX platform that help to manage health and wellness decisions by securely storing DNA data and providing analysis about health, wellness and lifestyle based on genetics. Users can choose to share data to help others develop treatments and cures for life-threatening illnesses. Users who share data are rewarded with OMX tokens, which can be used to access healthcare products, treatments and services that are part of the platform.
Country: Germany
17. Diploid
Diploid wants to revolutionize healthcare by bringing genome diagnostics into daily clinical practice. With a focus on rare diseases, we analyze human genomes and communicate results that are actionable for healthcare professionals and patients. To achieve this goal we bring together expertise in human genetics, software development, and design.
Country: Belgium
18. Genomes.io
Everyone’s is different and highly personal. Simply storing personal genomic data on the blockchain is not enough. ‘Genomes’ allows people to have complete confidence in the security of their personal genome from the moment the data comes off our machines. We offer low cost, high quality, market leading genomic sequencing and security. We aim to sequence 1 billion people’s genome and power new insights by empowering the owners to control access to their genome. Users can grant selective, controlled, auditable access in exchange for financial reward or to ask questions of their data as the field of genomics discovers more about our genetic code.
Country: UK
05 HEALTH AND WELLNESS
19.Asana Rebel
Asana Rebel is a startup founded in 2015 by Pascal Klein and Robin Pratap and is based in Berlin. Asana Rebel combines the best of yoga with high intensity training – in the process creating a whole new industry and revolutionizing how yoga is practiced. Our unique concept ofYoga Inspired Fitnessis just the start.Asana Rebel offers five distinctive workout themes: a Fatburn, a Strength, a Fexibility, a Balance and Focus and a Breathe and Relax program.
Country: Germany
20.Humanoo
HUMANOO mission is to become Europe’s largest B2B health hub and to have a positive and measurable impact on the health of employees. HUMANOO provides each user with integrated health training, determining the individual’s physical and mental health status in order to offer them customised coaching in physiotherapy, brain fitness, workouts and nutrition. HUMANOO aims to promote health and increase overall wellbeing, increasing happiness both in the workplace and in private life.
Country: Germany
21. Freeletics
Founded in June 2013, Freeletics is represented in over 160 countries fueled by a truly passionate community of Free Athletes. Freeletics’ vision is to help everyone become the greatest version of themselves. Freeletics promotes and increases physical fitness, strives for improved mental strength, willpower and confidence – all vital components for shaping one’s lifestyle according to individual desires and goals.
Country: Germany
22.8fit
Founded by repeat entrepreneurs Pablo Villalba and Pedro Solá in 2014, 8fit supports more than 20 million users worldwide on their individual journeys to healthier, happier lives. 8fit understands that there’s no “one size fits all” way to find lifelong health. and that why they are building an engaging and approachable way for people to achieve their personal fitness goals.
The 8fit approach draws on powerful pairings: between 8fit and you; nutrition and exercise; mind and body. 8fit helps you get on track and stay there through exercise and meal plans tailored to you and your goals along with guidance and resources to build healthy habits for life.
Country: Germany
23. Lifesum
Lifesum is a Swedish digital health startup with the vision to make people healthier and happier by using applied psychology and technology. Founded in 2013 with headquarters in central Stockholm, the company is growing fast and was selected by Wired UK as one of Stockholm’s 10 hottest startups.
Country: Sweden
24. Dacadoo
dacadoo has developed a fun, easy-to-use and secure way to manage your personal health, called the dacadoo Health Score platform. dacadoo has an integrated view of health by integrating all lifestyle components such as physical activity, nutrition, stress and sleep. All these lifestyle components influence and interact with each other and this is the reasons dacadoo looks at in an integrated way. dacadoo calculates your personal dacadoo health score, an indicator of your current health status in a number between 1 (low) and 1000 (high), which is the result of who you are, how you perceive your quality of life, and all your lifestyle choices and activities. dacadoo is not a diagnostic tool but a lifestyle product.
Country: Switzerland
06 GAMIFICATION
25.TOMMI
TOMMI is a virtual reality game for anxiety and pain relief in hospitalized and oncological children, involving parents and doctors during therapy and able to improve and adapt to the specific need of every patient.TOMMI is designed to improve patients therapy experience, engaging children senses and focusing their attention out of their negative feelings, also involving their parents to offer them a more active role during therapy. TOMMI also tests children psychomotor skills using AI to collect and analyze therapy related data useful to doctors to track patients performances in time.
Country: Italy
26. MindMaze
MindMaze develops medical grade virtual reality products to stimulate neural recovery. It develops a platform to build intuitive human machine interfaces combining VR, computer graphics, brain imaging, and neuroscience.
MindMaze offers MindMotionPRO, which provides patients with engaging and motivational virtual reality rehabilitation programs that support their recovery goals enabling them to follow a personalized exercise regimen prescribed by the rehabilitation expert. It promotes the ability of clinicians to design and personalize the dose and modality of a range of therapies and provides hospitals with the ability to optimize the delivery of rehabilitation therapy.
Country: Switzerland
07 MEDICAL DEVICES
27.D-Eye
Founded in 2015the company has developed the first smartphone based digital ophthalmascope. The D-EYE Retinal Screening System enables clinicians and organizations to perform mass health screenings and data collection to improve vital health examination services. The smartphone based D-EYE lens and on-board application allows anyone with minimal training to screen patients eyes for various health issues including Glaucoma, Diabetic Retinopathy and Macular Degeneration.
Country: Italy
28.Elvie
Elvie was founded in London in 2013. Its mission is to improve women’s lives through smarter technology.One of its first product is the Elvie Trainer, a Kegel trainer that helps women strengthen the pelvic floor via fun, five-minute workouts. Elvie has also introduced the first silent and wearable breast pump that fits in the bra.
Country: UK
29.Horus Technology
Horus is a wearable devicefor visually impaired and blind people that observes, understands and describes the environment to the person using it, providing useful information with the right timing and in a discreet way using bone conduction. Horus is able to read texts, to recognize faces, objects and much more.
Country: Switzerland
30.Popit
The Popit Smart Pill Tracker consists of Popit Sense, a Bluetooth-connected device with patented pill extraction detection technology, and the Popit app. These together make sure you will never forget your pill again.
Country: Finland
31.Corehab
CoRehab is an Italian company that since 2012 designs, develops and sells products for the rehabilitation and sport markets. Corehab constantly collaborates with top level institutions in Europe to empower the work of rehabilitation professionals and sport trainers by using up to date technology and internally developed easy to use software. With all the needed certification (ISO13485, CE marking, FDA, TGA approval), CoRehab provides safe and medical graded products to its customers around the world
Country: Italy
32. Xeltis
Xeltis is a clinical-stage medical device company leveraging breakthrough science to transform heart valve therapy. Xeltis’ technology enables natural heart valve restoration. Xeltis is revolutionizing the treatment of heart valve disease. The company’s restorative heart valves enable the patient’s own body to naturally form a new heart valve through a therapeutic approach called Endogenous Tissue Restoration (ETR).
Country: Switzerland
08 TELEHEALTH
33.Push Doctor
Push Doctor is a doctor consultation service. Through the smartphone, PC or Tablet, you can book an appointment, have an online video consultation with a NHS-trained, UK GP in minutes, or at a time that suits you,8am – 8pm, every day, and easily receive prescriptions and recommendations. Push Doctor also offers a 12 months Membership plan allowing subscribers to save on the appointments: you pay £20 as a member, or £30 for a standard appointment.
Country: UK
34.KRY
KRY makes it possible for patients to meet with doctors over video and get help with problems not requiring a physical examination. KRY’s doctors can help with advice, prescriptions, sick notes and referrals to other caregivers or to lab tests.
KRY’s vision is to make health access more accessible and equal.
Country: Sweden
35.Babylon
Babylon’s mission is to put an accessible and affordablehealth service in the hands of every person on earth.Babylon’s AI system has been created by experienced doctors and scientists using the latest advances in deep-learning. It assesses known symptoms and risk factors to provide informed, up-to-date medical information. During video visits doctors listen and look carefully to diagnose patients and write prescriptions or refer them to a specialist if required. Patients rate each visit to ensure quality.
Country: UK
FAQs
What is HealthTech innovation? ›
What are Health Tech Innovations? Health tech describes any digital healthcare technology, from wearable devices like FitBits to the complex databases that store their data. It's an industry that's taking on the challenge of saving more lives more efficiently, by leveraging the millions of sensor data at our disposal.
What is considered HealthTech? ›Health Technology – commonly referred to as HealthTech – is defined by the WHO as the “application of organized knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures, and systems developed to solve a health problem and improve quality of lives”.
Is HealthTech a sector? ›The sheer diversity of the HealthTech sector means that while there are common aspects to the innovation pathway, the journey for innovators in this space is often puzzling, with ambiguity around the actions and approvals required in order to bring their products to market.
How many HealthTech startups are there in India? ›At the moment there are over 3,500 healthtech startups in India spanning from platforms helping to monitor health conditions, apps using AI to detect illnesses and diseases, platforms connecting patients with doctors, and much more. Those startups have received over 2.2 billion in funding just in 2021.
What is the difference between medtech and healthtech? ›Whereas healthtech focuses on operational improvements, the term “medtech” refers to medical technology improvements. By enabling the development of the latest medical devices and techniques, medtech improves the diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions.
What is the difference between biotech and medtech? ›Medical Technologists perform lab tests used to diagnose and treat disease in a clinical setting while the Medical Biotechnologist works in a research setting, providing valuable data for scientific studies.
How big is the healthtech industry? ›Revenue in the Digital Health market is projected to reach US$29.48bn in 2022. Revenue is expected to show an annual growth rate (CAGR 2022-2027) of 7.45%, resulting in a projected market volume of US$42.22bn by 2027. The average revenue per user (ARPU) is expected to amount to US$96.65.
Is biotech a healthtech? ›Healthtech promotes personal care, medtech offers devices and instruments for better and more accurate treatment and diagnosis, and biotech creates useful drugs for previously incurable diseases.
Why is healthtech important? ›Use of Technology in Healthcare. Healthcare technology's uses are seemingly endless. Healthtech is being implemented in everything from hospital administrative processes to cancer research and surgery in order to improve efficiency throughout the industry and make the patient experience as painless as possible.
How fast is digital health growing? ›...
| Report Attribute | Details |
|---|---|
| Growth Rate | CAGR of 27.7% from 2022 to 2030 |
| Base year for estimation | 2021 |
| Historical data | 2016 - 2020 |
| Forecast period | 2022 - 2030 |
Is health tech the same as digital health? ›
Health technology refers to the solutions being developed to tackle a given challenge, including everything from websites and email, to the software and hardware we use to deploy them. Digital health is more encompassing; it refers to the convergence of health and technology to improve health delivery and outcomes.
What is healthtech startup? ›It is an online platform for users to order prescribed medicines, OTC pharmaceuticals, and other healthcare products. Also, users can book diagnostic tests online and receive teleconsultation services with doctors using the platform.
Who are unicorns in India? ›Startups that entered the Indian unicorn club in 2021 were Flipkart Moglix, BharatPe, CoinDCX, upGrad, Groww, BlackBuck, Droom, OfBusiness, Meesho, Chargebee, CRED, Digit, Gupshup, Infra.
What is a healthcare unicorn? ›A unicorn startup or unicorn company is a private company with a valuation over $1 billion USD. Unicorns are 'startups', i.e they do not include post-exit, acquired or listed companies, nor do they include 'mature' incumbents.
What does Digital Health do? ›Digital health technologies use computing platforms, connectivity, software, and sensors for health care and related uses. These technologies span a wide range of uses, from applications in general wellness to applications as a medical device.
Is biotechnology a medical device? ›The growing list of biotechnology products includes medicines, medical devices, and diagnostics, as well as more-resilient crops, biofuels, biomaterials, and pollution controls.
What is medical technology? ›Medical Technology can be defined as the technologies that diagnose, treat and/or improve a person's health and wellbeing, encompassing both low- and high-risk medical devices – products that can be as varied from tongue depressors, surgical gloves and medical thermometers to insulin pumps, pacemakers and in vitro ...
Is pharmacy better than biotechnology? ›Answer. Hello Student, Pharmacy jobs offer a better career opportunities with lot of growth prospects. A pharmacist can get chance to work with pharmaceutical industry, medical department of the government, medical universities, teaching hospitals, investigation and research institute etc.
Can a biotechnologist work in a pharmaceutical company? ›Biotechnology has helped the Pharma industry in the development of better processes, new products, and also has come up with new technologies to improve the existing methods. Thus, biotechnology when combined with the pharmaceutical industry can introduce a large number of jobs at the international level.
Which is better b pharma or biotechnology? ›Both options are good, but you need to find out your interest and liking. If select B. Pharma you need to be good at Chemistry specially organic chemistry. If you opt for Biotechnology you should have interest in technology and you should good at physics, maths & have interest in machinery.
How big is the telemedicine market? ›
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| Report Coverage | Details |
|---|---|
| Market Size in 2020 | USD 79.79 billion |
| Historical Data for | 2018-2020 |
| No. of Pages | 147 |
| Segments covered | By Product, By Modality, By Type, By End-User, By Application, By Geography |
NEWYORK, Aug. 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NEWYORK, August 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – The Global Digital Health Market Size is valued at USD 181 Billion in 2021 and is estimated to achieve a market size of USD 1,041 Billion by 2030; growing at a CAGR of 21.6%.
How big is the telehealth market? ›...
U.S. Telehealth Market Size to Hit Around US$ 309.9 Billion by 2030.
- Automated IV Pumps. Automated IV pumps control the dosages and drips given to patients. ...
- Portable Monitors. ...
- Smart Beds. ...
- Wearable Devices. ...
- Electronic Health Records. ...
- Centralized Command Centers. ...
- Telehealth and Apps.
- Countries with the best healthcare systems in the world in 2022. The following 10 countries have been seen as providing the best healthcare for their population. ...
- Singapore. ...
- Australia. ...
- Switzerland. ...
- The Netherlands.
Biotechnology (biotech) companies derive their products from the extraction or manipulation of living organisms. Pharmaceutical companies create medicines from chemicals and synthetic processes.
Is Medtech part of life sciences? ›“For the purposes of categorizing our companies and related commercialization initiatives, we generally consider 'Life Sciences' to encompass the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, biomedical technologies, healthcare technologies, botanical science and crop technologies, veterinary fields, environmental sciences ...
Are medical devices life sciences? ›The life sciences industry consists of companies operating in the fields of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, biomedical technologies, nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, food processing, and others that dedicate their efforts to creating products to improve the lives of organisms.
What do Healthtech companies do? ›Healthtech companies aim to optimize patient-centric healthcare through solutions like cloud computing, internet services and social mobility.
What is healthtech startup? ›It is an online platform for users to order prescribed medicines, OTC pharmaceuticals, and other healthcare products. Also, users can book diagnostic tests online and receive teleconsultation services with doctors using the platform.
Why is healthtech important? ›
Use of Technology in Healthcare. Healthcare technology's uses are seemingly endless. Healthtech is being implemented in everything from hospital administrative processes to cancer research and surgery in order to improve efficiency throughout the industry and make the patient experience as painless as possible.
What does innovation mean in nursing? ›...the intentional introduction and application within a role, group or organization of ideas, processes, products or procedures, new to the relevant unit of adoption, designed to significantly benefit the individual, the group, the organization or wider society.
How big is the healthtech industry? ›Revenue in the Digital Health market is projected to reach US$29.48bn in 2022. Revenue is expected to show an annual growth rate (CAGR 2022-2027) of 7.45%, resulting in a projected market volume of US$42.22bn by 2027. The average revenue per user (ARPU) is expected to amount to US$96.65.
Is health tech the same as digital health? ›Health technology refers to the solutions being developed to tackle a given challenge, including everything from websites and email, to the software and hardware we use to deploy them. Digital health is more encompassing; it refers to the convergence of health and technology to improve health delivery and outcomes.
Is biotech a healthtech? ›Healthtech promotes personal care, medtech offers devices and instruments for better and more accurate treatment and diagnosis, and biotech creates useful drugs for previously incurable diseases.
What is the latest technology used in healthcare? ›- Neurotechnology. ...
- Artificial intelligence. ...
- 3d printing. ...
- Precision medicine. ...
- CRISPR. ...
- Telemedicine. ...
- Health wearables. ...
- Technology in mental health.
- HealthifyMe. ...
- PharmEasy. ...
- Qure.ai. ...
- Axtria. ...
- SigTuple. ...
- Niramai. ...
- Perfint Healthcare. ...
- HealthPlix.
The arrival of new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and chatbots are radically transforming the landscape and ushering in a new era in healthcare.
How fast is digital health growing? ›Global Digital Health Market Growth Rate of 17.9 % over the Forecast Years [2021-2030]
Why are healthcare startups important? ›Startups are key to finding creative solutions to complex problems in the healthcare industry. Healthcare is a topic that, no matter who you ask, everyone agrees needs to improve.
How has technology improved healthcare? ›
Medical technology has advanced rapidly and improved the quality of patient care and medical treatment. For example, high-tech x-ray and MRI machines allow physicians to detect tumors at an early stage and treat cancers more effectively.
What are some recent innovations in healthcare? ›The advancements in the healthcare industry range from e-consultations, telemedicine, real-time diagnosis to accessing digital therapeutics provided by immersion technology tools. Genetic analysis, clinical data storage, and big data and analytics enable the development of precision medicine.
What innovations have been created by nurses? ›- Neoslip. ...
- Sanitary Towels. ...
- Feeding Tubes for War Veterans. ...
- Ostomy Bags. ...
- The Crash Cart.
The most effective nurse innovators have a sharp knowledge of healthcare trends and their implications for other healthcare workers, patients, and processes. They also understand the system at large, and can identify both opportunities and obstacles within how it works today.