Which Medtech Products Made Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2024 List?

The medtech industry showed out in style on Time Magazine’s recently published Best Inventions of 2024 list, with devices and diagnostics from multiple subspecialties featured.

Below are the medtech products Time deemed top of the crop in 2024.

Apps & software:

EXeX ExperienceX for optimizing operating theaters

Home health:

Withings BeamO for home check-up’s

Nuvo Invu for remote pregnancy monitoring

Daye Diagnostic Tampon for convenient gynecological testing

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Dexcom Stelo for over-the-counter glucose monitoring

Masimo W1 Medical watch for health tracking

Winx Health UTI Test & Treat for frictionless diagnosis

PherDal Kit for fertility help

Dandi IVF Care Kit for fertility comfort

Experimental:

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BiVacor Total Artificial Heart for groundbreaking cardio replacement

Accessibility:

Apple AirPods Pro 2 for subtle hearing help

Arc’teryx and Skip MO/GO device for robotic knee relief

GyroGear GyroGlove for calming tremors

Whispp AI solution for stutters

OrCam Hear for ultra-focused hearing help

AI:

Google DeepMind AlphaFold 3 for prediction models that could accelerate research and drive faster drug discovery

Laguna Insight to reduce administrative overhead for healthcare workers

Abridge to reduce doctor’s paperwork

Medical Care:

Overjet for clearer dental x-rays

Roche HPV Self-Collection Solution for a do-it-yourself pap smear

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Onward Medical ARC-EX therapy for spinal cord injuries

ALZpath pTau217 Antibody blood test for Alzheimer’s

EarliTec Diagnostics EarliPoint diagnostic for spotting Autism in infancy

ArteraAI Multimodal Artificial Intelligence system to customize prostate cancer treatment

Paragonix Baroguard donor lung preservation system provides a pressure- and temperature-controlled environment for traveling organs

Prenosis Sepsis ImmunoScore AI diagnostic test for sepsis

Unify Medical Amplio digital loupes for microscope-level precision and recording

Asensus Surgical AugmentOR Portal for analyzing past surgical performance to pinpoint areas for improvement

Northwell Health Double Neural Bypass using microchips to forge brain-spine connections

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Aspivix Carevix to hold the cervix in place using specialized suction technology

DermaSensor for simplifying skin cancer detection

Guardant Health Shield for simple cancer testing

Northwell Health iNav AI for early cancer detection

Robotics:

Medical Microinstruments Symani Surgical System for robotic assisted surgery

Special Mentions:

Qvin Q-Pad diagnostic menstrual pad

Xandar Karian XK300-H touchless medical monitoring

HemoSonics Quantra Hemostasis System diagnostic device for the operating room

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Front Line Medical Technologies COBRA-OS aortic occlusion device

Abbott Espirit BTK dissolvable stent system to address chronic limb-threatening ischemia

Bayesian Health AI Platform for pressure ulcer prevention

Nanox.AI Solutions for Medical Imaging preventative care

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Medtronic Inceptiv Spinal Cord Stimulator to reduce chronic pain

Sonavex EchoMark ultrasound-visible marker to improve hemodialysis

Check out the full list to see more breakout stars outside of the medtech industry, like bird-identifying binoculars and a digital fact checker.