Today’s panel discussion about
#SmartToilets, supported by Roca at the
#HealthRevolutionCongress #HRC2026 in Barcelona, focused on how using the toilet, a familiar object, could become a health-supportive tool in the future. It would be an example of
#ambienthealthcare: health monitoring that happens seamlessly in daily life.
🚾🔬Potentially built into home toilets, they would provide longitudinal, daily-life data that can reveal visual changes (presence of blood, urinary crystals…) and might alert asymptomatic
#patients to seek further investigation.
👉🏼A complementary tool for
#diseasecontrol,
#monitoring and
#earlydetection.
💬Among the panellists was Dr. Anna
@BujonsTur , COO of
#FundacióPuigvert, who pointed out that “daily image-based analysis of urine could help reveal
#urological and
#kidney problems before symptoms appear, supporting a shift from reactive to preventive, personalised, and data-driven medicine.”
This could be particularly valuable in remote or underserved areas by providing
#autonomy,
#privacy, and local
#monitoring for elderly or chronically ill patients who cannot easily travel to hospitals. It fits into a broader shift toward decentralised, home- and community-based health surveillance and preventive medicine—“
#hospitalsathome.