What happens when technology stops simply tracking our health and starts helping us understand what to do about it?
Recorded at HLTH Europe in Amsterdam, this episode of Beyond Longevity features three conversations with founders working across very different areas of health technology. From understanding our individual stress response and making sense of an overwhelming amount of health data, to bringing rehabilitation into the home, these conversations explore what preventive health could actually look like in practice.
Timothée Manschot, Founder and CEO of NOWATCH, is rethinking what a health wearable should do. NOWATCH continuously measures signals including electrodermal activity to understand how an individual’s body responds to stress and builds a personalised baseline over time. We discuss what Timothée calls “compassionate technology”, why more health data isn’t necessarily better, and NOWATCH’s unusual approach to privacy, where users remain in control of their own data.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timmanschot/
Nowatch - Polsen Health | Screenless Health Tracker for Stress, Sleep, Activity & Recovery
Samir Mitra, Founder and CEO of REYA.AI, has spent decades at the forefront of technology. He was part of the original Java team at Sun Microsystems and later became an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Sequoia Capital. Today, he’s applying that experience to longevity medicine. REYA.AI helps clinicians bring together medical records, blood tests, genetics, wearables and other health data, using AI to identify what actually matters. We discuss where AI can outperform humans, where it can’t, and why Samir believes clinical judgement and context still need to remain at the centre of healthcare.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samir-mitra-1623164/
Reya Ai
Roy Shteren, CEO and Co-Founder of WizeCare Technologies, is tackling another major challenge: how to make rehabilitation available to more people without requiring every session to happen face-to-face. WizeCare uses AI and movement tracking to support remote physiotherapy without additional hardware. We explore how the same technology could go beyond recovery and help identify changes in movement, mobility and fall risk before they become a bigger problem.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/roy-shteren/
https://www.wizecare.com/
Find out more about HLTH Europe:
https://hlth.com/events/europe/
See you there next year.
Next week:
Part Two from HLTH Europe, where we explore the microbiome, breath-based disease detection, patient adherence and the AI infrastructure behind medical research.
Timestamps
00:00 Welcome to HLTH Europe in Amsterdam
01:04 What We’re Exploring
02:00 Timothée Manschot and NOWATCH
04:08 Understanding Your Stress Baseline
05:25 What Is Compassionate Technology?
08:13 A Privacy-First Approach to Health Data
15:22 Wearables, Health and Longevity
17:29 Samir Mitra and REYA.AI
21:32 How AI Can Help Clinicians
23:17 Why Human Judgement Still Matters
29:01 Where Could Healthcare AI Be in 10 Years?
33:16 Roy Shteren and WizeCare
36:51 From Rehabilitation to Prevention
38:59 Can Remote Rehabilitation Scale?
41:17 Final Thoughts and Part Two
