accessRemote Patient Monitoring · Coordination & Monitoring
Care doesn’t stop when the visit ends.
Most of a pregnancy happens at home, in the weeks between appointments. Ouma’s remote patient monitoring program gives our specialists a window into those weeks, a rising blood pressure or an out-of-range glucose becomes a clinician’s call sooner, not a crisis later.
The problem
Diseases don’t stop at the office door
RPM lets us see what is happening in the spaces between visits.
A high-risk pregnancy is not managed in the exam room. It’s managed in the weeks in between, when a patient is at home, at work, or asleep, hundreds of readings away from their next appointment.
Hypertension and diabetes don’t pause between visits. They keep moving. For most of maternity care, a clinician sees a snapshot every few weeks and infers the rest.
The spaces between visits are exactly where preventable complications take root. A pressure creeps upward, a glucose pattern drifts out of range, quietly, until it isn’t quiet anymore.
Remote patient monitoring closes that gap. It turns the blind weeks between appointments into a continuous stream of insight, so the people responsible for a patient’s care can see what’s happening at home and act on it early.
Conditions we monitor
Two of the most dangerous complications in maternity
Ouma’s RPM program focuses on hypertension and diabetes, two of the most dangerous and time-sensitive complications, and on the access barriers that keep members from being watched closely in the first place.
Hypertension
Continuous blood-pressure visibility across pregnancy and postpartum.
- Hypertensive disorders are among the most dangerous and time-sensitive complications in maternity. The window between a warning sign and an emergency can be short.
- Remote BP monitoring improves how reliably pressures are captured and followed up, and can narrow disparities in postpartum follow-up.1
- Readings from home let a clinician adjust management or escalate before a pressure becomes a crisis, including in the postpartum weeks when patients often stop coming in.
Diabetes
Continuous glucose insight for gestational and pre-existing diabetes.
- Glucose in pregnancy moves day to day and hour to hour. A single office check tells you very little about the pattern.
- Aggregating a patient’s glucometer and CGM data into one continuous picture lets clinicians see trends instead of snapshots.
- Faster recognition of out-of-range patterns means faster titration and fewer downstream complications, the core of a diabetes-in-pregnancy program.
What members get
Designed to reach members where they are
The program is designed to reach members where they are, with as little for them to manage as possible.
- Cell-enabled devices. A scale and blood-pressure cuff for everyone, and a glucometer when clinically indicated. Devices are cellular, so there’s nothing to pair or sync.2
- Shipped to the member. Devices arrive at the member’s door with bilingual instructions and nurse setup support, ready to use.
- An optional app. Members who want it get an app with social-determinants and mood screening plus educational content, so support goes beyond vitals.
- Postpartum coverage. Monitoring continues up to 12 months after delivery, through the window when patients often stop coming in.2
- Members keep their devices. The devices stay with the member after delivery.
- Support if a device fails. Both Ouma and the device partner stand behind the hardware if something stops working.
- Beyond the vitals
- Mood and SDoH screening can route members into Behavioral Health, another of Ouma’s maternity services, whenever they need more support.
How it works
From a reading at home to a clinical decision
A device is shipped to the member.
It arrives ready to use, with bilingual instructions and nurse setup support, so getting started doesn’t depend on tech comfort.
A protocol is assigned.
The MFM team sets the plan, for example daily weights, twice-daily blood pressure, or routine glucose checks.
Data is reviewed by a clinician.
Readings transmit to Ouma, where critical readings prompt rapid outreach from an MFM clinician and routine readings are followed on an ongoing basis.
Readings are read in context.
Every reading is reviewed alongside the member’s full patient record, smarter, more personalized decisions.
RPM is not an emergency service. In an emergency, always call 911.
The device ecosystem
Technology that gets out of the way
Ouma is vendor-agnostic. We choose partners whose technology gets out of the way, so the data reaches a clinician and the member barely has to think about it. Marani is our preferred device partner, and the program works with others as needed.2
Preferred device partner
A cellular blood-pressure cuff and glucometer, shipped to the member’s door.
Marani’s devices are cellular-enabled, the cuff transmits its readings directly over the cell network to Ouma’s clinicians.
No phone to pair, no Bluetooth to sync, no app to troubleshoot. Whether the data gets through doesn’t depend on a member’s phone or tech comfort.
GDM interface
The dashboard that unifies a patient’s diabetes data.
LilyLink aggregates a patient’s CGMs and glucometers, including Dexcom and FreeStyle Libre, into a single clinician dashboard.
The whole glucose picture lives in one place instead of scattered across apps, powering Ouma’s diabetes-in-pregnancy monitoring.
Home imaging
RPM beyond vitals, an ultrasound probe at home.
Pulsenmore’s FDA-authorized home ultrasound probe ships to patients in maternity deserts who would otherwise drive 1 to 3 hours for a scan.
Under MFM supervision, patients perform basic scans from home, keeping care reachable for the communities furthest from it. See also Ultrasound Interpretation.
The prevention case
Most maternal harm is preventable. RPM attacks the reasons it’s not.
When the CDC’s review committees look at why maternal deaths happen, the same theme surfaces again and again: a large majority are preventable, and they hinge on two things, early recognition and timely access to care.
Those are precisely the two problems RPM is built to solve. It watches the readings that would otherwise go unseen, so when something changes a clinician already has eyes on it, no waiting for the next appointment, no waiting for a symptom bad enough to send a patient to the ER.
Who this is for
Built for the people responsible for maternity
Health Plans
Continuous monitoring for members in the weeks that drive the worst outcomes, earlier intervention, better postpartum follow-up, and a more cost-effective path than waiting for the ER.
For health plans →Hospitals & Health Systems
Extend your team’s reach into patients’ homes between visits, catch hypertension and diabetes earlier, and keep high-risk patients stable and local.
For hospitals →Clinics & Providers
Add remote monitoring to your maternity line without building the device logistics or the clinical coverage yourself.
For clinics →Pairs well with
The connective tissue between specialties
Because monitoring touches every one of these lines, a reading at home can pull in the right specialist without the patient ever leaving the program.
Diving deeper
OB homecare: obstetric monitoring in the patient’s home
Ouma delivers OB homecare, obstetric remote patient monitoring that brings blood-pressure and glucose tracking, clinician review, and escalation into the patient’s home. As OB homecare providers, our clinicians review readings on a scheduled and alert-driven basis and coordinate follow-up so partner organizations can manage high-risk pregnancies outside the clinic.
This obstetric homecare model pairs maternity remote patient monitoring, including home blood pressure monitoring in pregnancy, with MFM-supervised protocols. Readings flow to Ouma clinicians, who follow up when values move out of range, so risk is caught early rather than at the ER. It supports tele-MFM for high-risk pregnancy, integrates with diabetic management, and gives health plans a home-based option for their highest-risk members.
Frequently asked
Common questions about pregnancy RPM
Our team can design a remote monitoring program around the population you’re trying to reach.
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Let’s Talk
Catch risk between visits.
Tell us about your population and the risks you are trying to get ahead of.
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