In late January 2025 the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine held its Annual Pregnancy Meeting at the Gaylord Rockies Resort in Aurora, Colorado, just outside Denver. Remote pregnancy monitoring came up in several sessions, and INVU featured in three of them: a research poster, a lunch session hosted by Philips, and a scientific forum.
Dr. Nadav Schwartz of the Pregnancy and Perinatal Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania presented the poster “Empowering patients to conduct NSTs from home: success rates from >2000 remote NSTs”. His co-authors were Barak Laish, Ohad Regev and Dr. Amit Reches of Nuvo.
The team analyzed 2,031 remote nonstress test appointments in 222 patients at 10 clinical sites, recorded with INVU between July 2022 and June 2024. A clinically interpretable NST was obtained in 92.9% of appointments. Success was not related to the mother’s age; it was higher later in pregnancy, at lower BMI and with each further appointment, which points to a learning curve.
Philips, Nuvo’s partner, hosted a Learning Lunch, “Obstetric Innovation that Transcends Care Settings.” Dr. Richard Broth, Dr. Sina Haeri and Dr. Michael Ruma discussed how remote nonstress tests, blood pressure monitoring and glucose tracking are changing where prenatal care takes place.
Dr. Broth’s slides from the session (PDF) ↗
Dr. Broth on monitoring pregnancies at home →
At the forum, chaired by Dr. Adam Lewkowitz and Dr. Alisse Hauspurg, Dr. Broth led a discussion of remote fetal monitoring: what it offers, where it is difficult, and what practices have learned from using it.
Remote monitoring came up elsewhere at the meeting too, including a session on remote blood pressure monitoring led by Dr. Christina Yarrington of the University of New Mexico, and a poster on perinatal outcomes after a remote monitoring program for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.
The Penn Medicine study of remote NSTs with INVU →
How INVU works →
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