Our (FemTechnology) Nature Commentary on a Holistic Approach to Women’s Health
Check out our piece in Nature Reviews Bioengineering titled:
“A Holistic Approach to Advancing Women’s Health.”
This isn’t just a call for more research into “female-specific” conditions, it’s an argument that women’s health is foundational to advancing biomedicine as a whole.
Too often, women’s health is sidelined as niche, underfunded, and under-researched. We propose a different lens: one that treats women’s health as a driver of innovation that can unlock better care and new scientific breakthroughs across the board.
Key themes from the piece:
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Built to Fail Her? AI’s Invisible Bias in Women’s Health (and How We Fix It for Everyone)
AI is rapidly reshaping healthcare, promising a future of precision and personalization. Yet, for over half the global population—women—this future is dangerously unclear.
Why Women’s Health Is Costing Your Business Millions Per Year (And What To Do About It!)
Is your company bleeding money without even knowing it?
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What If a Book Knew You? Introducing Empire of Memories: The AI-Personalized Novel Reimagining Storytelling
Empire of Memories: The AI-Personalized Novel Reimagining Storytelling
In a world where health systems, apps, and platforms all claim to be “personalized,” we still rarely encounter experiences that truly see us. Which is part of the thesis behind, Empire of Memories: a Book That Remembers You : orianakraft.com/empire
The system wasn’t broken. It was designed that way.
Ever wonder why women’s health “malfunctions” so consistently? Why reproductive care, mental health treatment, and medical research seem to fail women in predictable patterns? What if these aren’t bugs – they’re features?
Empire of Memories is an interactive novel where you become a character with a secret history. Set in a fractured world where choices manifest as threads of energy, this isn’t a story you just read – you live it.
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Empire of Memories: The Interactive Novel That Changes You
Not About Women’s Health — But Everything to Do With It
Before I built FemTechnology and ORI, I wrote Empire of Memories a book about power, memory, and what happens when choices become visible.
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Because Who Tells the Story Shapes the System (In Women’s Health & In Society)
Empire of Memories is a personalized, interactive novel that lets readers shape the plot, blending speculative fiction, memory science, and power dynamics.
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How do the stories we tell shape the technology we create? – WebSummit
Why is it so important to talk about content at a tech conference? Because, although technology powers our modern society, it is the stories we tell, and content we create, that drives how that technology is applied and what we choose to use tech for.
Think about it: would Instagram or TikTok or Facebook or even OpenAi (especially OpenAi and their large language models (LLMs)) be anything without content, without stories? No.
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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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Opportunities for improving the PCOS experience
Did you know that approximately 75% of individuals with PCOS remain undiagnosed when visiting their doctor? Despite PCOS being the most common endocrine disease in women of reproductive age – we still don’t have standard diagnostic criteria.
Why PCOS is about more than just fertility
Did you know that children of mothers with PCOS are 31% more likely to be admitted to the hospital for infectious diseases and 47% more likely to be admitted for allergy-related problems?
Why are we ignoring the health of young women?
Aka Why there should be more FemTech solutions focussed on college-age students:
College-aged women are one of the least-serviced demographics when it comes to women’s healthcare, yet they are also the age range that would make most sense to target first. It is the age when many conditions first manifest:
Barriers to Innovation In Women’s Health (A Series).
Healthcare wasn’t designed with women in mind.
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FemTech and Data – what does the future of women’s health look like?
There is a fundamental and foundational lack of data when it comes to women’s health. A quick primer: In the U.S., women were not required to be included in clinical research until 1993, when Congress passed the NIH Revitalization Act.
As a direct consequence, the medication used and prescribed to this day was not tested, nor created with the female physiology in mind – with devastating consequences. Unsurprisingly, a study published in 2020 from UC Berkeley and the University of Chicago found that women experienced worse side effects in 90% of cases from medication as compared to men, and the “sex difference was not explained by sex differences in body weight.”
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The systemic problem with the lack of education in women’s health and its consequences
We live in our bodies but, as women, we are not taught much about it. We rely on doctors’ expertise or advice from our friends to bridge the gaps in our knowledge. Is that all we need, though? We are, after all, truly the ones in charge of our health and our bodies. We have the right to be armed with the knowledge we need to be able to make educated and informed decisions about our health – and that is where the systemic lack of education in women’s health has failed us. Here we list 7 aspects of our health that are often overlooked when it comes to learn how our body works.
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