he insisted digital widens access to healthcareone remaining challenge is that legislation in many countries has yet to catch up with the telemedicine revolution although that has started changing in recent yearsvirtual appointments have been available via frances public healthcare system since 2018 while germany started allowing doctors to prescribe the use of apps such as weight trackers last yearand in between appointments patients can continue to monitor their health remotely thanks to yet more startupsana maiques cofounder of barcelonabased neuroelectrics showed a crowd at the web summit how a helmet developed by the company can monitor patients brains from their homesthe device uses sensors to show the activity in different parts of the brain and can even pulse electricity into targeted areas helping to treat conditions such as epilepsy remotelyspanish football legend iker casillas meanwhile is among the investors in idoven a startup that uses ai to analyse data from home heart monitoring kitsits technology is designed to detect irregular heart rhythms that could prove dangerous an issue that casillas cares about deeply following a heart attack in 2019we are the first company in the world capable of doing it the companys ceo manuel marina breysse told afp