Healthtech Intelligence Report

Half of all women who attempt Kegel exercises perform them incorrectly. The most common error, bearing down instead of lifting, can actually worsen the pelvic floor dysfunction the exercises are meant to treat. A biofeedback device that detects the direction of force changes the exercise from guesswork to guided rehabilitation. The pelvic floor is a…

Roughly one in three women will experience pelvic floor dysfunction in her lifetime. The treatment is deceptively simple: strengthen the muscles through targeted exercise. The challenge is that most women perform Kegel exercises incorrectly, with no way to know whether they are engaging the right muscles. Pelvic floor dysfunction is one of the most common…

The wearable breast pump category was born from a simple observation: the technology meant to help mothers sustain breastfeeding was itself a barrier to breastfeeding. Willow Go brings that innovation to a price point that makes hands-free, in-bra pumping accessible to far more mothers. When the original Willow pump launched, it proved that a fully…

Breastfeeding is the single most evidence-backed nutritional intervention for infant health, yet the technology most women use to sustain it has barely evolved from the loud, cumbersome, tethered machines of the 1990s. A silent, wearable pump that fits inside a bra changes the equation entirely. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends exclusive breastfeeding for approximately…

Pregnant women have been told to “count the contractions” for generations, but timing contractions with a stopwatch during active labor is like measuring a hurricane with a rain gauge. A wearable sensor that continuously monitors uterine activity offers a fundamentally different kind of prenatal intelligence. The third trimester of pregnancy is medically defined by anticipation:…

A ring that already tracked sleep, heart rate, and body temperature added cycle prediction, pregnancy insights, and perimenopause features, turning a general health wearable into something more specific: a continuous reproductive health monitor you never have to think about. The menstrual cycle is not a standalone system. It is a reflection of systemic health, driven…

In 2018, the FDA did something it had never done before: it cleared a smartphone app as a method of contraception. The decision was controversial, the science behind it was real, and the regulatory precedent it set may reshape how we think about digital health tools for reproductive autonomy. For more than half a century,…

The biological window for conception is remarkably narrow, roughly six days per month, and most women cannot reliably identify when it opens. A urinary hormone test that detects both estrogen and LH surges expands the detectable fertile window to four days, doubling the opportunity that simpler tests provide. Human reproduction is, statistically, an inefficient process….

A clinical study of 237 women found that a wearable bracelet tracking five physiological signals could detect the fertile window with 90% accuracy. That bracelet became a commercial product, and the science behind it remains the strongest published validation for any consumer fertility wearable. The fertile window, the roughly six days per cycle when conception…