Unveiling the state and future of FemTech:
Illuminating Insights from Digital Health Insider and Light-it’s Roundtable 
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What Do We Do?
We bring together cutting-edge innovators (femtech startups, researchers, clinicians & corporates) to tackle collective pain-points in women’s health from a 360 degree point of view.
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Women’s health needs to be built — that means introducing students to femtech & scouting researchers to disseminate their insights to a broader audience.
Are you an innovator?
You should be working with us. Innovation in women’s health requires an ecosystem approach and we bring together the most cutting-edge players and payers for a 360 degree perspective on innovation in women’s health.
Redesigning healthcare so it works for everyone.
Connecting actors to bridge the gap in care and solve collective pain-points.
Whether it’s via our Summit, University Series or Guide, we want to build the future with you!
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What do we do?
FemTechnology Summit
Brings together the most exciting innovators in women’s health for a 360 degree perspective on innovation to solve collective pain-points and catalyze change.
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University Series
Builds the pipeline of innovation in women’s health.
We scout and connect the next generation of researchers and founders in women’s health at academic institutions to help support their work, and disseminate their insights to a larger audience.
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FemTechGuide
Connecting you to best in-class solutions for women’s health. In Pilot.
Are you looking for a woman’s health solution for yourself?
Are you a clinician who wants to provide best in class care to your patients?
Are you working within an organization and would like them to offer more tailored women’s health solutions?
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Custom Projects
Innovation in women’s health requires an ecosystem approach — in need of our expertise? We love thinking & implementing new and effective ways to catalyze true change in women’s health.
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History
Throughout history women have been considered ‘aberrations’ from the norm, rather than a crucial and vital part of the population to be included in medical trials and long-term studies.
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Participants
Women of reproductive age were often excluded out of the fear that menstrual cycles and changes in hormones could pose unnecessary complications and act as unpredictable variables.
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Data
This has resulted in missing data sets and a lack of understanding, diagnosis and treatment of many gynecological conditions that impact large swaths of the female population, as well as unwanted pharmaceutical side effects for non-gynecological diseases, delays in care, underdiagnoses or undertreatment.
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Future
However – be it by wearables, mobile apps, home testing devices or kits – this is beginning to change, with the emergence of companies beginning to collect large amounts of new data, conduct subsequent research studies and develop new means of treatment.
Deep Dives:
Why is women-Centric-Cancer-Care a prime case study for redesigning healthcare with women in mind?
Women are 34% more likely than men to experience severe side effects from cancer treatments (for immunotherapy that number rises to a 50% increased risk of serious side effects).
A study conducted by a major cancer centre found that cancer treatment often fails to take into account the personal needs of women:
How The Stories We Tell Shape Our Society (in Women’s Health and Beyond)
As children, we absorb the stories we are told. Fairytales. Marvel superheroes. We soak up their meanings and structures as facts and organizing principles.
As a society we function in the same way: we live guided by unseen codes and hidden systems. The problem with hidden systems? They hold us back without our ever even knowing it.
That’s certainly the case with #womenshealth — what we fund impacts what we know, what we study and the therapies that come to market.
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Who Is Looking To Close The Gender Data Gap?
Let’s take a look at a few companies that are taking action to close the gender data gap in healthcare.
Collaborating with Roche at the FemTechnology Summit 2023
We asked Roche why they wanted to collaborate on this year’s FemTechnology Summit. Check out their answer and take a look at the beautiful venue for the FemTechnology Summit 2023!
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Why does international Women’s Day Matter? A closer look at the inventor gender gap
Happy International Women’s Day! International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8th every year to commemorate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. It is also a day to raise awareness of gender inequality and advocate for women’s rights.
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? FemTechnology Summit 2023: June 7
FEMTECHNOLOGY SUMMIT is back! The first in-person edition of FemTechnology Summit will be held on Roche Campus in Basel, Switzerland June 7th 2023.
The Patient Journey and Women’s Health
Why do we need to innovate in women’s health? And what does it mean to reimagine the patient journey with women in mind?
FemTechnology University Series (a crash course on the state of women’s health)
What if FemTech was healthcare’s next great redesign? (Or, in other words, why does healthcare need a redesign).
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Women’s health is seen as a luxury: what does that mean?
In the UK, gynaecology waiting lists faced the biggest increase in delays of all medical specialities post pandemic: growing by 60%. Women with conditions like endometriosis, prolapse and heavy bleeding waited more than a year to receive NHS care in England – because the surgeries were classified as elective procedures for benign conditions.
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What doe the future of women’s mental health look like?
In the U.S. 41 million women have mental health struggles. 23 million of those women will go untreated.
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Top 3 Researcher, FemTech Founder & Clinician 2022 Interviews
Innovation in women’s health can only occur from a 360 degree perspective: core stakeholders in that mission are femtech founders, clinicians, researchers and of course patients themselves. That’s why at femtechnology we strive to include the full range of perspectives to have a holistic overview of where the field is headed. As we kick off a new season of interviews we thought we’d share some of our favourite interviews:
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How does male-centric medicine endangers women’s lives?
Did you know that for women with epilepsy the concentration of their medication drops during the lutealphase of their menstrualcycle? Women can have breakthrough seizures as a result. But instead of tailoring the dosage of their medication so that the concentration varies in function of the menstrual cycle, doctors either increase the dosage across the board or they tell women they can’t drive and have to have follow-up appointments with neurologists.
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What does it look like when women have access to information about their own fertility?
Did you know that 1 in 3 women will have a reproductive pathology at some point in their lives? The female reproductive system is highly dynamic and does not just impact the uterus or ovaries but metabolism, sleep, mood, weight, cognitive function, heart, bones …
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