What is Women’s Health Tech?

Women's Health Tech is a concept that takes a broader view of women's health, encompassing medicine, healthcare, and technology. It is gaining attention as an approach that looks at women's health from multiple angles, without being limited by gender or life stage.

What health issues does Femtech address?

Femtech addresses a wide range of women's health issues, including menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause, as well as diseases with a high incidence in women and conditions where symptoms and progression differ between sexes.

How does Femtech support a 'general malaise'?

Femtech/Women's Health Tech offers options to visualize and record discomfort or abnormalities with the power of technology, and to share them as needed. Data and records are not meant to cause anxiety, but rather serve as clues to understand one's own body.

Does Femtech determine the 'right answer'?

Femtech/Women's Health Tech does not impose a 'this is what you should do' kind of right answer. The important thing is to understand your current condition and available options, and to create a 'state of being able to choose' what suits you from among them.

How does fermata view Femtech?

For fermata, Femtech and Women's Health Tech are not just trends or product categories, but a mechanism for each individual to become the best expert on their own body.

Why is it important to make options 'usable'?

There are many options worldwide, but they won't be 'usable options' if they don't fit into Japanese life, systems, and culture. fermata values adapting global knowledge to the Japanese context and arranging it in a way that can be seamlessly incorporated into daily life.

What is Dr. Amina’s Lens?

Dr. Amina's Lens is a column that analyzes the global progress of Femtech from medical, systemic, and technological perspectives, and organizes the necessary viewpoints for us living in Japan.

What is Femtech?

New Options to Support Women's Health

Femtech refers to technologies and services that address women's health issues.

This includes not only problems unique to women, such as menstruation and pregnancy, but also diseases with higher incidences in women, such as osteoporosis and dementia, and conditions like menopause and cancer, which manifest differently or have different prognoses in men and women.

In recent years, the term "Women's Health Tech" has also gained traction as a more comprehensive concept.

This approach broadly considers women's health, transcending gender and life stages, and encompasses medical care, healthcare, and technology in an integrated manner.

It is gaining increasing global attention as a multifaceted approach to women's health.

On the other hand, what we notice, articulate, and choose as products may only be the "tip of the iceberg."

Unspeakable ailments.
Unexplained fluctuations in physical condition.

Below the surface, there are still undetected bodily signals and changes that are not fully understood.

Things that are hard to put into words.
Sensations that are difficult to explain.
The body's voice, which has been difficult to express
due to cultural and social backgrounds.

Femtech/Women's Health Tech is an option that not only addresses visible concerns but also helps us understand subtle changes that are not yet apparent.

Visualize the vague feeling of being unwell

There has been a tendency to vaguely accept women's health concerns, thinking, "It might just be my imagination," or "I have no choice but to put up with it."

Femtech/Women's Health Tech offers an option that uses the power of technology to visualize and articulate these discomforts and irregularities, and to share them as needed.

Data and records are not meant to cause anxiety, but rather to serve as clues for a deeper understanding of one's own body.

As awareness grows, so do the available options.

Not to determine the right answer, but to choose one

Femtech/Women's Health Tech does not impose a "right answer" or what you "should do."

What's important is to understand your current condition,
to know your options,
and to be able to choose what suits you from among them.
Creating this "state of being able to choose" is
the essence of this field.

Understanding yourself isn't about restricting yourself, but about freeing yourself. That's what fermata believes.

Fermata concept

For fermata, femtech and women's health tech are not just passing trends or product categories.
They are a system that enables each individual to "become the best expert on their own body."

There are many options available globally.
However, if these options don't align with Japanese lifestyles, systems, and culture, they won't become "usable options."

fermata helps to adapt global knowledge to the Japanese context,
and shape it into forms that can be seamlessly integrated into daily life.

Rather than simply increasing options,
our role is to make them "usable options."
That is our mission.

How far has femtech advanced globally?
In "Dr. Amina’s Lens," a column that deciphers the current landscape from the perspectives of medicine, systems, and technology,
we organize truly essential insights for those of us living in Japan.