Australia's HeraMED partners with Garmin Health to enhance pregnancy monitoring through wearables.
Integrates Garmin data into the HeraMD remote monitoring platform
Australian medtech company HeraMED is to partner with smartwatch giant Garmin to integrate Garmin data into HeraMED’s clinical grade remote monitoring platform HeraCARE.
The integration will mean expectant mothers and their healthcare providers can access a broader range of health metrics such as heart rate, sleep patterns and fitness activity levels. These will integrate into HeraMD’s remote pregnancy monitoring platform via the Garmin Health API.
HeraMED’s Managing Director and CEO, Anoushka Gungadin, described the partnership as a major step forward in digital maternity care. She said:
“This is an incredibly exciting collaboration for HeraMED. Garmin is a globally recognised brand that has developed a specific smartwatch technology strategy for women. It is a significant step forward in our mission to revolutionise maternity care. By incorporating Garmin’s high-quality sensor data into HeraCARE, we’re expanding and enhancing our ability to provide continuous, real-time health insights to expectant mothers and their healthcare providers.”
The integration will allow users to seamlessly connect their Garmin smartwatches to the HeraCARE platform, enhancing its existing suite of monitoring tools, which already includes fetal and maternal heart rate tracking, blood pressure monitoring, and mood assessments. The collaboration is set to run for an initial three-year term, with either party able to withdraw with three months’ notice.
Anoushka continued:
“We are delighted to bring health and wellness data into our clinical grade platform for the purpose of transforming the model of care for maternity. The additional data points will contribute to HeraMED’s ‘data-as-an-asset’ approach with the possibility to monitor activities such as steps for pregnant mothers with hypertensive or diabetic conditions or sleep quality for our mental health care plans will only enrich the capability of HeraCARE.”
Garmin Health’s Senior Director of Global B2B Sales, Joern Watzke, said the partnership would highlight the value of wearable technology in pregnancy monitoring:
“We are excited to collaborate with HeraMED to leverage Garmin smartwatch technology in support of women’s healthcare. This strategic relationship will highlight how Garmin wearable data can extend beyond informing daily healthy habits to supporting pregnancy monitoring by providing healthcare providers with valuable patient insights.”
Beyond device integration, HeraMED and Garmin also plan to explore research collaborations focused on women’s health, particularly in maternity care. The partnership, however, is not a commercial agreement and does not involve direct financial transactions between the companies. Instead, HeraMED expects the collaboration to bolster its ‘data-as-an-asset’ approach, using additional data points to refine its predictive analytics and support expectant mothers with conditions such as hypertension or diabetes.
HeraMED, listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: HMD), is a leader in digital maternity care, offering cloud-based solutions that enable at-home fetal and maternal health monitoring. Garmin, best known for its GPS-enabled wearables, has increasingly focused on health applications, with its smartwatch technology playing a growing role in fitness, wellness, and medical research.
With the demand for remote healthcare solutions continuing to grow, the HeraMED-Garmin partnership is set to play a key role in shaping the future of maternal healthcare, offering expectant mothers greater insights into their health while providing clinicians with real-time data to support informed decision-making.