Ultrasound Interpretation · Maternal-Fetal Medicine

The ultrasound experts, reading your scans

Obstetric ultrasound is the single imaging modality MFM physicians train longest to master. Ouma puts that expertise behind your scans, reading obstetric ultrasounds remotely for OB practices, MFM groups, mobile-ultrasound companies, and midwives across the country. You get higher diagnostic quality, less liability for the referring provider, and access to reimbursement your practice may not be capturing today.

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100% board-certified MFM on every read· Same-day reads· Works with your PACS or ours· Licensed in all 50 states

34.5%²

of “normal” sonographer reads had a potential missed diagnosis on MFM re-read

~18 months of MFM subspecialty training is focused purely on pregnancy imaging¹
Cardiac anomalies are the category most often missed on non-specialist reads²
Same-day turnaround on ultrasound reads³

1. MFM subspecialty training duration, Ouma clinical leadership. 2. Kern-Goldberger, Haeri et al., AJOG MFM, 2021. 3. Ouma program data.

Two things we bring

Quality for your patients. Revenue for your practice.

Quality

Reads that catch what others miss

The subspecialist best trained on pregnancy imaging reads every scan.

MFM physicians spend roughly 18 months in subspecialty training focused on obstetric imaging. That is far beyond a radiologist's few months of pregnancy-imaging exposure or an OB/GYN's one to two months. For the pregnant patient, MFMs are the imaging experts.¹
The data backs it up. In a study of more than 6,400 scans across 11 practices, MFM tele-interpretation found a potential missed diagnosis in 34.5% of scans that sonographers had read as normal. Cardiac anomalies were the single most-missed category.²
Ouma follows AIUM, SMFM, ACOG, and ISUOG standards and best practices. The read sits with the subspecialist best trained to make it, which raises diagnostic quality and reduces the referring provider's liability.

Revenue

Reimbursement you can't currently capture

The scans get read by experts, and the reads stay billable to you.

Obstetric ultrasound is reimbursed by level. A practice can only bill for the scan levels it is credentialed and equipped to perform and read. Many OB practices lack the subspecialty expertise for higher-level scans, or are not reimbursed by payers for reading them.
Partnering with Ouma opens that portion of revenue back up. Your patients get advanced, MFM-level imaging read in-house instead of being referred out. The associated reimbursement stays with your practice.
Quality and revenue come from the same decision. The scans get read by the experts, and the reads get billed where the care happens.

1. MFM subspecialty training duration, Ouma clinical leadership. 2. Kern-Goldberger, Haeri et al., AJOG MFM, 2021.

Not sure where to start?

We'll map the read levels your practice could be capturing today.

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How it deploys

We adapt to how you already work

Ouma is built to slot into your existing imaging workflow rather than force a new one on you. Two places matter most.

Your reading software, or ours

Already running a PACS or reporting platform like ViewPoint or Astraia? We read natively inside your existing solution, with no migration and no new logins for your team.

Don't have one, or don't want to manage it? We deploy our own cloud-based PACS, so the technology is our problem, not yours. Scans in, expert reads back.

Your sonographers, scanning at an MFM level

Ouma does not employ sonographers. Your sonographers stay your sonographers. What we add is the expertise behind them.

Our MFMs meet regularly with your scanning team, review studies, and give direct feedback. Over time your imaging gets better at the source, not just at the read.

Study spotlight

We didn't just claim MFM reads catch more. We measured it.

The case for MFM interpretation is not a marketing line. It is published evidence, and Ouma helped write it.

In a peer-reviewed study of 6,403 obstetric scans across 11 practices, MFM tele-interpretation found potential missed diagnoses in 34.5% of scans that had been read as normal. Fetal cardiac anomalies were the highest-missed category.²

Ouma's CEO, Dr. Sina Haeri, is a co-author. This is the exact problem our interpretation service exists to solve.

2. Kern-Goldberger, Haeri et al. “Maternal-fetal medicine tele-interpretation of obstetric ultrasound.” AJOG MFM, 2021.

Obstetric Ultrasound

Maternal-fetal medicine tele-interpretation of obstetric ultrasound

Kern-Goldberger AR, Haeri S, Lindsley W, Srinivas SK, et al.

Ouma Health · University of Pennsylvania

Abstract

34.5% of scans read as normal held a potential missed diagnosis on MFM re-read.

PubMed Read the study →

Where we work

Wherever the scan happens, we're the reader

Lighten an MFM practice's read load

Already have MFMs? We take interpretation volume off their plate so your physicians can focus on the patients in front of them. That is added read capacity without added headcount.

Inside an OB/GYN office

We embed as the reader behind your office's scans, so patients get imaging and expert interpretation in one place. Your OBs shed the liability and skill burden of high-level reads.

Into maternity deserts

This is what Ouma has mastered. Patients get scanned close to home, but there is often no reliable expert nearby to read the study. We are that reader.

Partner spotlight

The read behind the desert

Across roughly 100 mobile-ultrasound sites and home-birth and community-midwife practices, patients can get a scan but often have no reliable expert to interpret it. The nearest MFM can be a two to four hour drive away.³

Ouma is the reader on the other end of those scans. A mother in a maternity care desert gets subspecialty-level interpretation without the drive.

It is the same gap our workforce research documents nationwide. More than 90% of U.S. counties have no practicing MFM, and roughly 35% of U.S. counties are maternity care deserts.⁴ ⁵

It is also why we partnered with Pulsenmore, whose FDA-authorized home-ultrasound probe lets patients perform basic scans from home under MFM supervision. The device puts the scan in the patient's hands; Ouma puts the expert behind the read.

Together, that is imaging access with no waiting room and no long drive.

See remote monitoring →

3. Ouma program data. 4. Greiner, Haeri, Nidey. Am J Perinatol, 2025. 5. March of Dimes, “Nowhere to Go: Maternity Care Deserts Across the U.S.,” 2024.

In partnership with

An FDA-authorized home-ultrasound probe. Patients scan from home; Ouma MFMs read the images.

Scans in. Expert reads back. Read the announcement →

Pairs well with

The entry point into the broader teleMFM relationship

Ultrasound interpretation is often where a practice first works with Ouma, and it opens the door to the full subspecialty. These services extend the same MFM expertise across the rest of the pregnancy.

High-Risk Pregnancy (teleMFM) →

The full subspecialty behind the read; interpretation is one mode of our teleMFM service

Remote Patient Monitoring →

Pulsenmore home ultrasound plus eyes on BP and glucose between visits

Advanced Diabetic Management →

For the GDM and pump/CGM patients your scans surface

Nurse Navigation →

The coordination that follows an abnormal finding

Who this is for

Built for the people behind the scans

Clinics & Healthcare Providers

OB offices, mobile-ultrasound companies, and midwifery practices get expert reads behind their scans, plus reimbursement they can't currently capture.

For clinics →

Hospitals & Health Systems

Subspecialty interpretation capacity for your imaging volume, without adding MFM headcount.

For hospitals →

Sources

MFM subspecialty training duration: roughly 18 months of fellowship training focused on obstetric imaging, versus a few months of pregnancy-imaging exposure in radiology and one to two months in OB/GYN residency. Ouma clinical leadership and program description.
Kern-Goldberger AR, Haeri S, Lindsley W, Srinivas SK, et al. “Maternal-fetal medicine tele-interpretation of obstetric ultrasound.” AJOG MFM, 2021. Of 6,403 scans across 11 practices, MFM tele-interpretation found potential missed diagnoses in 34.5% of scans read as normal by sonographers; cardiac anomalies were the highest-missed category. PubMed
Ouma program data: same-day ultrasound reads; roughly 100 mobile-ultrasound and community-midwife sites served.
Greiner AL, Haeri S, Nidey NL. “Preterm Births and Maternal-Fetal Medicine Physician Workforce Location in the United States.” Am J Perinatol, 2025. 90.3% of U.S. counties have no practicing MFM. PubMed
March of Dimes. “Nowhere to Go: Maternity Care Deserts Across the U.S.” 2024. About 35% of U.S. counties are maternity care deserts. Report

Let’s Talk

Put the ultrasound experts behind your scans.

Tell us how your imaging works today: your software, your sonographers, your patients. We will show you how Ouma reads fit and what reimbursement you may be leaving on the table.