Meet the Singapore-based startup democratizing pregnancy care

Being pregnant and giving birth is safer than it's ever been.
According to the World Health Organization, maternal deaths dropped by about 34% between 2000 and 2020.
Yet despite these improvements, a maternal death occurred almost every two minutes in 2020, and there are about 6,500 newborn deaths every day.
Singaporean medical technology startup Biorithm hopes to help solve this problem through mobile technology and data science.
"Women's health care has not been innovated in decades, and it's not addressed the needs of the modern woman," said Amrish Nair, Biorithm's co-founder and chief technology officer.
"Understanding this is how we can deliver healthcare to the mother at a point of convenience," Nair told CNBC Tech: The Edge.
Founded by doctors and engineers, the company has developed a maternity care platform called Femom, which allows clinicians to deliver care to mother and baby, anytime, anywhere.
"Biorithm is really all about ending preventable poor outcomes in pregnancy, and we hope to achieve that through improving access to care by developing remote monitoring technologies, allowing patients to take the hospital to their home," Nair said.
Watch the video above to see how Femom works.
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[@saulgoodman2018]

The problem with all these at home health care devices. Your doctor also have to be using these.

[@aliali-ce3yf]

"tech startup disrupting" - sorry, i can't take that seriously. it's so cliche.

[@ricoh881227]

This more on "stillbirths" and the complications it brings..

[@dekev7503]

How would constant contact with electricity affect the baby?

[@saulgoodman2018]

It's nothing more then an ultra sound.

[@dekev7503]

@ nope, ultrasound uses vibrations, this uses electrical signals/ electrodes .

[@saulgoodman2018]

@@dekev7503 It is basically the same thing.

[@etaokha4164]

Let me guess you have to buy it? Yes because there's no health care in America when it comes to maternity care for pregnant women. That's why you barely see a pregnant American go for maternity because it's more money taken off them before even baby arrives then charged again for having the baby in hospital. Can you imagine Dr's being lazy enough to do their duty traditional way and create a robot to monitor your baby's movements instead of a Dr doing it.

[@lukekibbles]

this is why nobody's having kids anymore

[@saulgoodman2018]

There's health care in America for maternity care.

[@lukekibbles]

@@saulgoodman2018 yeah it’ll cost u an arm and a leg tho

[@TgIsMe]

❤❤❤

[@lukekibbles]

lmao let the A.I. take care of ur babies. Why should u have to worry about it?

[@saulgoodman2018]

Watch it. This is not AI.

[@anandjim4264]

Democratizing 😂😂