🌟 Revolutionizing Health: From Digital Innovation to Mindful Fertility Support

Hey there!

Welcome to this week’s edition of the HealthHack newsletter, featuring the latest buzz from the healthtech space! Grab your coffee (or tea!) and let’s dive in:

🚀 Big boost for digital health innovators in Europe: The UNITE program just launched with €20 million in funding capacity to bridge Europe’s digital health divide. The pan-European program is aimed at transforming healthcare through digital deep tech innovation.

😌 Headspace and Spring Fertility are releasing new mental health resources designed to support individuals navigating fertility challenges. Headspace, renowned for its comprehensive mental health platform, has collaborated with Spring Fertility to launch the “Support for Your Fertility Journey” initiative, which  includes guided meditations, mindfulness exercises, and educational content aimed at addressing the psychological impacts related to fertility struggles.

🍏 Apple provides software to test a person’s hearing and to customize the output of the hearing aid. This hearing aid feature, which boosts sound around users to make it more audible, is intended for people with mild to moderate hearing loss of the kind that can make it difficult to hear conversation in a noisy restaurant or other quiet sounds in everyday life —  not for severe or profound hearing loss that requires professional treatment.

✍️ Ambient AI is revolutionizing clinical workflows, notably through ambient dictation technology. This innovation listens to physician-patient conversations and transcribes them into notes, significantly reducing the documentation burden on healthcare providers. Studies have shown that excessive documentation is a leading cause of clinician burnout, making this technology a crucial tool for enhancing provider efficiency and well-being.

👁️ Researchers say current eye-tracking systems have flaws and deliver insufficient amounts of data. They’re bulky, with multiple electrodes on the face and neck, expensive and have weak outputs. A new method, developed in the UH lab by Jae-Hyun Ryou, is non-invasive, comfortably wearable, and safe, enabling easy and continuous measurements and monitoring of eyeball movements when combined with a hand-held display and computing device.

💰 The Swiss spine surgery startup Neo Medical, which is combining the latest advances in biomechanics and intraoperative augmented reality, has just raised $68 million in funding, one of the largest financings in the spine sector in the past 10 years. Neo Medical will now expand globally and disrupt the spine surgery market.

💊 Lemme, Kourtney Kardashian Barker’s supplement brand, is releasing a supplement called Lemme GLP-1 Daily aimed at providing an “all-natural” way to manage their weight. In spite of its name, however, the product doesn’t contain a synthetic GLP-1 hormone and is not a GLP-1 receptor agonist like Ozempic or Wegovy. Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs mimic the actions of the hormone GLP-1 by activating its receptor, which leads to weight loss and lower blood sugar, among other benefits.

✈️ Are you interested in travel & hospitality trends? About 500 travel & hospitality leaders, innovators and startups will come together on November 28th in sunny Barcelona to talk about the Future of Travel. If you’d like to join this year’s FutureTravel Summit, the code HEALTHYTRAVEL will give you 40% off for your event ticket (valid until September 25).

That’s it for this week’s roundup! By the way, we are currently thinking about if we should publish this newsletter just once per week, or maybe twice. What do you think? Let us know in the poll below

Stay healthy and tech-savvy,

Your HealthHack Team!