Beyond Longevity at HLTH Europe: Wearables, AI and Remote Rehabilitation for Preventive Health

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