While technology has long supported the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, the healthcare sector has recently adopted numerous digital platforms for comprehensive data analysis. These innovations now mark a major turning point in healthcare: the preventive, data-based approach not only transforms access to therapies but also places greater emphasis on prevention and patient empowerment.
The American magazine TIME, in collaboration with Statista, has identified the world’s leading health-tech companies of 2025. Among the recognized innovators is Neko Health, a partner of the Swiss Health Alliance (SHA), honored as one of the most significant companies of its time.
The analysis was based on three key indicators — financial performance, reputation, and online engagement. Companies focusing on artificial intelligence and data analytics achieved top ratings. They are considered pioneers of a paradigm shift in healthcare, enabling more precise diagnoses, promoting personalized treatments, and advancing future disease prevention through large-scale data utilization.
Neko Health: Expansion to Manchester
After successfully launching in the United Kingdom under the umbrella of the new health organization SHA, Neko Health celebrated the opening of its new health center in Manchester on September 10, 2025. The center aims to perform up to 20,000 body scans annually.
Founded by Hjalmar Nilsonne and Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek, the company offers non-invasive full-body scans that collect millions of data points within minutes — from skin findings and blood sugar levels to cardiometabolic risk factors.
The goal: to detect diseases before serious symptoms develop. This makes prevention — often a “blind spot” in many health systems — more accessible, affordable, and scalable. Today, nearly 80% of Neko’s clients renew their check-ups annually.
CEO Hjalmar Nilsonne said that Neko Health is proud to bring “a new kind of preventive medicine to one of Britain’s most dynamic cities and help people identify future health issues early so they can live longer and healthier lives.”
Swiss Health Alliance (SHA): Global Values as a Foundation
The Swiss Health Alliance (SHA), partner in the Neko Scan project, combines this technological innovation with a holistic set of values. For SHA, health begins not with medical treatment but with a foundation of preventive and community structures that support individuals.
Values such as holistic medicine, responsibility, and humanity form the core of social health innovation for SHA. Health is not only about individual care but also about setting a cultural standard for solidarity, sustainable livelihoods, and intergenerational resilience.
SHA founder and CEO Roberto Di Pasquale stated that Neko Health has the potential to become “one of the most important health companies of our generation,” aligning closely with SHA’s own mission to empower patients through effective, self-managed health tools.
Prevention as a Global Community Task
The TIME recognition highlights that the future of medicine lies not only in complex therapies but also in early detection, prevention, and empowerment. By enabling people to better understand and actively manage their health, technology creates not only new markets but also new opportunities for quality of life and social stability.
Through projects like Neko Scan, the Swiss Health Alliance (SHA) combines cutting-edge health-tech innovation with culturally grounded values to open new horizons for global healthcare. The organization unites technological progress with a holistic understanding that centers on people and community.
Health is more than the absence of disease — it reflects humanity, responsibility, and cultural identity.
SHA’s media office emphasized that “the medicine of the future must combine technological progress with human values. With projects like Neko Scan, we make prevention accessible, effective, and socially meaningful.”
The globally active organization also engages beyond healthcare, supporting projects for soil detoxification in agriculture and partnering in CO₂ reduction strategies with innovators like David L. Deck, Chairman of CarbonOcean International AG, which focuses on climate-neutral CO₂ production.
The Swiss Health Alliance (SHA) defines itself as a supranational organization guided by deep global responsibility. In alignment with the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), SHA strives to promote a fairer and more sustainable world.
Its statutes are rooted in natural law, serving as an ethical compass that recognizes justice, equality, and human dignity as universal foundations for all actions.
