
Withings, Babyscripts Team Up to Tackle Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy
Through a new partnership, Babyscripts members now have access to Withings BPM Pro 2, an FDA-cleared cellular blood pressure monitor.
Through a new partnership, Babyscripts members now have access to Withings BPM Pro 2, an FDA-cleared cellular blood pressure monitor.
The maternal care startup is backed by major health systems including MemorialCare Health System, whose innovation arm led the most recent funding round. Babyscripts offers a mobile app providing education and resources for the pregnancy and postpartum journey.
In addition to the $500,000 investment in the startup, Inova will deploy Babyscripts' offering to its employee health plan, then to its entire system.
The duo will utilize Babyscripts' remote monitoring tech along with information gained from Penn Medicine's Heart Safe Motherhood program.
One hundred patients from Cone Health's Center for Women’s Healthcare will have the option to sign up for the remote monitoring pilot with Babyscripts which will begin in February 2018.
Babyscripts is working with 10 health systems and plans to add six more in the next month.
Measuring lung function, enhancing fetal monitoring and tissue engineering took the top three prizes at second edition of Impact Pediatric Pitch. But of the digital health technologies on display, machine learning was a big theme.