Beyond Snapshot Diagnostics: The Future of Continuous Health Monitoring

Healthcare is still largely built around snapshots: a blood test, a doctor’s visit, a single measurement at one moment in time. But biology is dynamic and our health data could be too. In this episode of Beyond Outcomes - Clinical Research Unfiltered, we speak with Agnes Musiol, founder of pheal, about the future of continuous health monitoring and the development of smart patches that can measure biochemical signals from sweat, interstitial fluid, or capillary blood. Together, we explore how continuous biomarker monitoring could transform prevention, chronic disease management, real-world data generation, and personalized healthcare. Agnes also shares the realities of building a medical technology startup in Germany: funding gaps, regulatory friction, the line between wellness and medical devices, the importance of early patient involvement, and the challenge of turning promising sensor research into usable products. A conversation about innovation, responsibility, regulation, and what it takes to move healthcare from reacting to disease toward helping people stay healthy.