Too Many Pregnant Women Are Too Far From Care
Across the United States, access to pregnancy care is becoming harder, not easier. More than one-third of U.S. counties are classified as maternity care deserts—areas with no birthing facility or obstetric clinician—and roughly 1 in 10 birthing people live in counties without full access to maternity care. Rural communities are hit especially hard, with nearly two-thirds of maternity care deserts located in rural areas.
For expectant mothers, that can mean long drives for routine monitoring, delays in care, more missed appointments, greater stress, and fewer opportunities to identify complications early. When pregnancy care depends on geography, the burden falls most heavily on women in underserved communities.
Source: March of Dimes, Nowhere to Go: Maternity Care Deserts Across the US, 2024 report.
INVU™ Remote Pregnancy Monitoring That Meets Women Where They Are
INVU™ is designed to help close that gap.
INVU™ is the first FDA-cleared wearable for nonstress tests at home, enabling clinicians to monitor maternal and fetal wellbeing outside the clinic. It brings key pregnancy monitoring capabilities into the home, allowing healthcare providers to extend care beyond the walls of hospitals and offices.
With INVU™, providers can support remote monitoring workflows that help reduce unnecessary travel, improve convenience for patients, and expand access to essential testing in communities where maternity care infrastructure is limited.
How INVU™ Helps Address Maternity Care Deserts
Expands access without expanding geography
Women do not have to live near a hospital or specialty clinic to receive meaningful pregnancy monitoring. INVU™ enables care teams to reach patients in rural, underserved, and hard-to-access areas.
Reduces the burden of travel
For many patients, especially those balancing work, childcare, or transportation limitations, repeated in-person visits create real barriers. INVU™ helps bring appropriate monitoring closer to home.
Supports earlier and more frequent insight
Instead of relying only on occasional office visits, clinicians can gain access to more timely data during pregnancy, supporting faster intervention when needed.
Improves the patient experience
Pregnancy care should feel supportive, not disruptive. INVU™ offers a more comfortable, convenient care pathway for expectant mothers while helping providers maintain clinical oversight.
Enables scalable care models
As health systems, payers, and public programs look for ways to improve maternal outcomes and manage costs, INVU™ supports a more scalable model for prenatal care delivery.
INVU™: A New Infrastructure For Modern Pregnancy Care
Maternity care deserts are a care delivery problem—but they also create an opportunity to rethink how pregnancy care is delivered.
INVU™ helps shift the model from location-dependent care to connected, data-enabled care. By combining wearable sensing, cloud-based analytics, and remote clinical workflows, Nuvo is helping make pregnancy care more accessible, more proactive, and more equitable.
Why Nuvo
Nuvo has spent more than a decade building a new category in maternal health. INVU™ is not just another digital health app. It is a regulated, deeptech platform purpose-built for pregnancy care, combining advanced biosensing, signal processing, and AI-enabled analytics.
The result is a practical solution to one of the biggest access challenges in maternal health: how to deliver high-quality monitoring when the clinic is too far away.
Stories from rural care
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