Medical devices company Acurable is one of just two UK Medical Devices & Wearables companies named in TIME magazine’s World’s Top HealthTech Companies of 2026 list.
At the heart of Acurable is its AcuPebble Technology, a wearable approach to diagnosing sleep apnoea, which the company says is designed to make testing simpler and more accessible for patients. The device is small and lightweight, and sits on the neck overnight while it captures physiological signals that can be analysed to identify signs of sleep apnoea.
“I’m proud of the team, and particularly of the years they spent on the part nobody sees in designing the product, the clinical validation, the regulatory work and the slow business of proving something rather than announcing it. And I’m prouder of what it’s doing now, with patients across NHS services being diagnosed at home, in days, instead of waiting months for a sleep study,” said Professor Esther Rodriguez-Villegas, inventor of the AcuPebble technology, and founder and CEO of Acurable.
Acurable says its AcuPebble technology is intended to support home-based testing, which gives clinicians access to diagnostic data while allowing patients to sleep in their own homes. The device is built on a decade of pioneering research conducted at Imperial College London, and is now being used in the NHS for fully remote sleep apnoea diagnosis.
To identify the companies around the world using digital technologies to make healthcare more effective and accessible,TIME and Statista assessed thousands of companies worldwide on financial performance, reputation and online engagement, with 500 named in the final list.
