A podcast to help great female-founded health tech companies to be successful by sharing good ideas, stories of success and failure and practical advice from people across the health ecosystem. We will inspire you, connect you with partners, customers and investors and offer practical advice through the stories of other women in the sector.

In 2017, we released our first Top 100 Women in Wearable and Consumer Tech list, and this year we are back with a new list for the year 2019, this time focusing on top female leaders in fem tech and health tech industries globally.

Digital health and health tech companies, many of them led by women, have been busy getting huge venture capital investments and aiming to disrupt the healthcare industry.

Women in Health Tech are very excited to launch our new Mentorship Program, EmpowerHer at HealthTech Week, after several years of consideration and a high level of interest from our members. Mentoring can enable career and personal development for women at any stage in their career, supporting a deeper understanding and confidence in their development.

Women play a central role in artificial intelligence development and harnessing it for social impact: AI policy researcher Adriana Bora has shown the potential for Machine Learning (ML) to help combat modern slavery. Anu Meena is using AI to empower farmers and reduce food waste with her start-up Agrowave, an AgriTech startup in India. Alice Zhang is changing the future of the healthcare industry by using AI to develop new drugs to address diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. In South Africa, Benji Coetzee uses AI in her start-up emptytrips.com to improve logistics and transportation.

At RE•WORK, we are strong advocates for supporting women working towards advancing technology, so ahead of the upcoming AI in Healthcare Summit, we set out to highlight inspirational women within the US healthcare and pharma sectors who are working at the forefront of AI developments, and who deserve recognition for their achievements.

MIAMI—International Women's Day was Tuesday, and, at the ViVE 2022 conference this week, the impact of female founders and executives touched almost every conversation about the future of healthcare and tech.

In a COVID-19 context which has compelled health systems to improve in terms of innovation and new technologies, women have played an important role to ensure the provision of due care and treatment to the population. Despite representing a large portion of the healthcare workforce, women are seemingly underrepresented in decision-making positions in this sector in Mauritius.