10 Best Women’s Health Solution Providers 2022

 

Women’s health, or the so-called FemTech market, has been on the rise for the last couple of years. It started as technological solutions—primarily focused on fertility and pregnancy; however, as more and more prominent leaders took the stage, women’s health topics reached beyond the standards. The sector now fulfills women’s health issues, including sexual wellness, pregnancy and maternal care, disease management, menopause, pelvic health, and mental health-related challenges. 

Realizing these aspects, most of the leading tech companies recognized that the area offers excellent potential. Women started to use digital health increasingly—or better say, FemTech products for female well-being. The culture around women’s health issues began to change. 

In recent years, we have seen greater emphasis on women’s empowerment and the usage of technology to improve life experiences for them and resolve their problems. FemTech sector companies use technology and innovations to create products and healthcare solutions specific to women. The idea behind FemTech is not to earn profits but to focus on solving problems faced by women. 

In the course of just a few years, FemTech has exponentially grown to encompass a range of technology-enabled, customer-centric products and solutions. 

FemTech companies are enhancing the healthcare industry in several ways—initial breakthroughs are already being achieved across a range of areas, including:  

Improving Care Delivery: Virtual clinics, innovative brick-and-mortar clinics, and direct-to-customer prescription delivery services enable women to access care in a prompt, reliable, convenient, and consumer-centric manner. 

Enabling self-care: Innovative tech-oriented companies' fitness trackers and wearable devices are among the FemTech solutions that are helping women take greater charge of their health and health-related data. 

Improving diagnoses: Clinical diagnostics companies push the scientific frontier to address unmet medical requirements.

Addressing stigmatized areas: Companies are addressing what had been considered to be stigmatized topics head-on, such as menstrual health, sexual health, pelvic care, and menopause. The categories in which FemTech is having an impact are increasing—and also, in some cases, starting to evolve, overlap, and redefine themselves as FemTech companies begin to scale up and seek new ways to expand. 

As women’s healthcare becomes an increasing priority, FemTech is rising to meet the challenge as it matches capital and talent with the essential needs. In a fleeting period of time, FemTech has already demonstrated impressive early wins. Focused on the comprehensive fundamentals of the best companies catering to this niche, Insights Care brings you its latest edition, ‘10 Best Women's Health Solution Providers 2022.’  

Turn over the following pages to know more about how these healthcare innovators are bringing in the much-needed advancements in this niche. Also included in the edition are two trendy articles crafted by our in-house editorial team.

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10 Leading Companies Shaping the Future of Women’s Health 2021

 

Often engrossed with caring for others, women neglect their health, not realizing that they can care for others better only if they are healthy. Add to it the gender disparity that directly or indirectly prevented women until recently from caring for themselves, sharing about their health issues, and seeking medical intervention.

Women experience unique healthcare challenges, yet their healthcare always took a backseat. Healthy women are critical to maintaining healthy families and resultantly healthy communities and healthy countries.

The coronavirus pandemic has put added pressure on the woman of the family – be it ensuring nutritious meals to boost the family’s immunity or care for the positive members of the family.

Until recently, even the medical fraternity focused only on women’s reproductive or gynecological health. Apart from heart diseases, blood pressure and diabetes, autoimmune disorders, Alzheimer’s disease, chronic pain, lung disease, gastrointestinal diseases are also prevalent in women. Unfortunately, these were overlooked until a few years back. The healthcare providers dealt with women differently from men, like not providing detailed information about the ailment.

In addition, hormones were blamed for a woman’s health concerns or ‘it is all in her head’. Of late, it is the lifestyle factor that is blamed. While changing lifestyle is a concern for everyone’s health, what needs to be understood is, ‘Her’ health is as important as others.

The situation is changing for good, albeit slowly. For instance, since long, heart-related diseases were considered a disease of middle-aged men. Now, doctors are taking women’s heart issues seriously. Research on women’s healthcare has increased significantly, and so has the effective delivery of healthcare services. Women’s health is the highest priority even for WHO. Several steps and healthcare programs have ensured the inclusivity of women for health-related issues.

The rise of the Femtech (Feminine Technology) market has also dramatically transformed women’s healthcare. Tech companies flood the market with innovative health technologies to create products and services specifically for women.

Digital healthcare has come as a boon for women, particularly during the pandemic. Though emerging technologies gave impetus to digital healthcare, women used it optimally during the coronavirus pandemic. It proved most beneficial for pregnant women vulnerable to infections in medical establishments.

We cherish those healthcare companies empowering women through their products and services to make informed choices about their health.

Read about their illustrious journey in our latest edition of Insights Care - 10 Leading Companies Shaping the Future of Women’s Health, 2021.

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