CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & TEL AVIV, Israel–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a world chief in well being know-how, and Nuvo Group, a personal firm commercializing INVU by Nuvo™, an FDA-cleared, prescription-initiated, distant being pregnant monitoring platform, right now introduced a collaboration to develop a extra inclusive being pregnant care expertise from the prenatal stage by way of labor and supply. By the collaboration, Philips will help Nuvo in facilitating distant fetal monitoring pilot packages that concentrate on growing entry and adherence to prescribed care in distant areas, starting with a pilot program in rural Colorado.

Greater than half (54 %) of the counties within the USA provide very restricted or no entry to maternity care [1]. Inside these counties, greater than 2.2 million ladies of childbearing age dwell in full maternity care deserts, which haven’t any hospital providing obstetric care, no delivery middle, and no obstetric supplier [2]. Following the latest White House call to action for organizations to assist enhance well being outcomes for folks and infants, Philips and Nuvo will collaborate to pilot Nuvo’s INVU being pregnant monitoring system as a part of an built-in resolution for rural care suppliers and their sufferers within the USA.

“Digital options and ecosystem-building are essential enablers to addressing disparities in healthcare reminiscent of entry to maternal well being care in rural settings,” mentioned Sandra Lesenfants, Normal Supervisor Hospital Affected person Monitoring at Philips. “With this collaboration, we’re extending the sight and attain of being pregnant care and bringing extra distant monitoring choices to the communities and expectant moms the place and after they want them most.”

The USA continues to expertise acute staffing shortages in medical care – a problem frequent in rural areas lengthy earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic. This initiative has the potential to assist ease the burden on suppliers by shifting a portion of care to the house setting. Suppliers will be capable to prescribe INVU to expectant moms, who will put on the sensor band throughout digital visits with their physicians. Throughout these visits, a dwell studying permits the expectant mom to entry simplified knowledge and insights through the paired INVU app, whereas the supplier receives NST readings akin to deeper fetal surveillance that OB/GYNs are accustomed to receiving throughout in-office procedures.

“Collaborating with Philips is a crucial step in our efforts to deliver extra complete being pregnant care options to sufferers, suppliers and payers,” mentioned Kelly Londy, CEO of Nuvo Group. “Philips has lengthy been a frontrunner in offering high-quality care within the obstetrics area, and we really feel that this deep historical past, coupled with INVU’s distinctive means to fulfill mothers the place they’re, might be game-changing for the business.”

[1] March of Dimes. 2020 maternity care report press launch. https://www.marchofdimes.org/news/seven-million-american-women-of-childbearing-age-live-in-counties-with-limited-or-no-maternity-care.aspx#:~:text=54%25%20of%20counties%20across%20the,center%2C%20and%20no%20OB%20provider.

[2] March of Dimes. 2020 maternity care report. https://www.marchofdimes.org/materials/2020-Maternity-Care-Report.pdf

About Royal Philips

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a number one well being know-how firm targeted on bettering folks’s well being and well-being, and enabling higher outcomes throughout the well being continuum – from wholesome dwelling and prevention, to analysis, remedy and residential care. Philips leverages superior know-how and deep scientific and client insights to ship built-in options. Headquartered within the Netherlands, the corporate is a frontrunner in diagnostic imaging, image-guided remedy, affected person monitoring and well being informatics, in addition to in client well being and residential care. Philips generated 2021 gross sales of EUR 17.2 billion and employs roughly 78,000 workers with gross sales and companies in additional than 100 nations. Information about Philips may be discovered at www.philips.com/newscenter.

About Nuvo Group

Based mostly in Tel Aviv, Israel, Nuvo Group Ltd. (“Nuvo”) is dedicated to reinventing being pregnant take care of the twenty first century by way of new know-how, instruments, and practices for suppliers and expectant moms, together with the INVU by Nuvo™ platform, an FDA-cleared, prescription initiated distant being pregnant monitoring and administration system. The INVU™ sensor band permits the supply of distant non-stress exams and maternal & fetal coronary heart price monitoring right now whereas pioneering new data-driven customized pathways that Nuvo believes will assist enhance well being outcomes for all ladies sooner or later. The know-how and patent property that underpin the INVU platform have been awarded quite a lot of business recognitions, together with Quick Firm’s Subsequent Massive Issues in Tech (2021), CB Insights’ Digital Well being 150 (2020), and MedTech Innovator’s Prime 50 MedTech Startups (2021), in addition to a number of grants from a few of the world’s main tutorial medical facilities and scientific our bodies. Nuvo is led by a various crew of skilled enterprise and medical professionals, devoted knowledge engineers, software program designers and proud dad and mom who embrace a collective mission to present each life a greater starting.

For extra data and full indications, contraindications, warnings and precautions together with directions to be used, go to: www.nuvocares.com.