From augmented reality glasses for physical therapy to hearing tests for babies, discover five companies and the innovative solutions they’re working on to improve people’s health.
Dozens of exhibitors were present at the fourth edition of Healthcare Week Luxembourg this week, making connections with partners and showcasing their products. We caught up with five companies to hear about what they’re working on.
Facilitate communication
How can a person communicate if they have language or speech disorders? The IT services provider Tuomi is working on a mobile app called ARA that aims to help people communicate more easily. Patients with aphasia or Parkinson’s disease, for instance, can have difficulty speaking.
“We work with a neuroscientist specialising in Parkinson’s disease, and she’s helping us to create an app especially for patients,” explains creative producer Kirstin Roos. Users are able to adjust different tools or tasks to suit their own needs. “The idea is that in emergency or stressful situations, the app can act as a bridge.”
The company, which was founded in Trier in 1995 and has been present in the grand duchy for 20 years, received the Made in Luxembourg label in September. It’s still developing this app, but a demo version is already up and running.
A digital platform for (peri)menopause
It’s just stress! That’s what Ann Broché heard from doctors when she started experiencing symptoms like joint pain and sleep issues. It turns out she was suffering from perimenopause. Broché’s frustration led her and her co-founders to set up Uma Health, a European digital health platform for women experiencing perimenopause and menopause.
“We provide access to care providers that are trained on the topic, so they can help women in finding the right information and treatment,” says Broché. Based in Ghent, the company is two years old and already has 20 care providers on the platform, over 2.000 paying customers, and patients from 15 different countries. “The main market is the Netherlands and Belgium,” she adds, but “we’re now expanding to Luxembourg and France.”
A holistic approach to improve workplace wellbeing
BloomUp is an eight-person startup that aims to reduce absenteeism in the workplace and improve mental wellbeing – including in the healthcare sector. “What we do is offer online and offline therapy,” explains Bregt Verleden. The platform also offers online coaching with clinical psychologists, as well as modules that help people master stress, avoid burnout, communicate better, handle aggression in the workplace, or practice mindfulness and meditation.
In addition, BloomUp aims to help HR teams streamline and organise wellbeing initiatives through data analysis. “We’re currently active in Belgium,” he says, but “Luxembourg has been chosen as the next frontier.”
Hearing tests for babies
Classic hearing tests are done by asking the patient to raise their hand when they hear a sound or to repeat a sentence. “You can’t do that with a baby who’s six months old!” points out Brainphonics (winner of the HWL Visitors’ Choice Award 2026) CEO and co-founder Ben Somers.
A spinoff from the University of Leuven, the company has designed a hearing test called CORGEE: while children watch a movie, their brain responses are measured. “We can look with our algorithms to see how well the sounds and speech are being processed by the child. This gives objective and automatic information to the clinician to determine hearing levels,” says Somers. “And if, for example, they have a hearing aid or hearing implant, the clinician can adjust the settings of the implant based on the results of the test.”
“The hearing test can be done in all contexts, but the main application is now in rehabilitation to see if the child is performing well with the hearing aid,” explains Somers. The test is already on the market in Belgium and was used in the first hospital in September. “We’re here in Luxembourg to explore collaborations and see what the hearing ecosystem looks like.”
Augmented reality for physical therapy
Strolll aims to revolutionise physical therapy by using augmented reality glasses that project images and tools into the user’s field of vision. This can help at all stages of physical therapy and rehab, whether the patient is still in bed or is able to walk around, explains clinical success manager Brent Vandenbroeck, who previously worked as a physiotherapist.
“We really try to provide a continuum of care,” he says. The patient doesn’t need to go to the technology; instead, the technology comes to the patients. All they need are the AR glasses, which add objects and images that the patient and practitioner can interact with, making physical therapy exercises more engaging. “We’re UK-based, but from the beginning of January, we started here in Europe as well.”
The three winners of the HWL Awards 2026:
- Azyro received the Luxembourg HealthTech Adoption Award
- Kando received the Europe HealthTech Adoption Award
- Brainphonics received the HWL Visitors’ Choice Award
The awards were granted in three categories:
- the Luxembourg HealthTech Adoption Award for a Luxembourg-based company;
- the Europe HealthTech Adoption Award for a Europe-based company outside
Luxembourg; and - the HWL Visitors’ Choice Award for an innovative solution receiving the highest
cumulative score from HWL visitors.
