Saving Preemies with a Smarth Phone

Online, June 21, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Lumeden has developed a new mobile app technology that is used to save preemie lives. Premature birth
causes suffering, life long debilitation or death for 15 MILLION newborns every year. The mobile app technology provides early warning of preterm birth allowing a healthcare professional to get the pregnant mother to a center with a NICU in time. Alternately, the healthcare professional is given early warning to intervene to keep the baby in womb for development improving the newborn's outcome.

"Our ability to predict preterm birth remains sub-optimal [] Even with a detailed history and physical exam, we remain largely unable to tell pregnant women when their baby will deliver. And because we can't tell who will deliver early, we have little opportunity to try to intervene before labor starts."Dr. Erin Clark, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center.

Early identification of preterm labor, prior to advanced cervical dilation, allows for more successful treatment of the condition and a continuation of the in-utero fetal maturation process. Often preterm labor is recurrent. Therefore, a patient who has already experienced preterm labor must be carefully followed. Comprehensive follow-up care is often achieved through case management, more frequent physician visits and/or home nursing services with or without home uterine activity monitoring.

Lumeden's smart phone platform and intravaginal monitoring device (IMD) images cervical effacement and os dilation (IMD only used for 1-2 minutes by patient to data harvest, then removed, data harvesting ≤ once day or as prescribed); abdominal smart patch harvests fetal ECG and maternal contraction data, mobile phone patient instructions by clinical staff. http://www.lumedenmedical.com