Covid19 & Fertility Care: Remote Monitoring Meets Fertility Benefits for Better At-Home Option

Trying to achieve pregnancy with fertility treatments can be challenging, stressful, and expensive in the best of times -- let alone a global pandemic. Since the covid19 outbreak in the U.S., fertility care has been basically "paused," and women attempting to conceive have been left with a very different set of decisions and options for care than were available pre-pandemic. So, how does fertility care shift from the clinic to the home? Tammy Sun, co-founder & CEO of fertility benefits startup Carrot Fertility, and Lea Von Bidder, co-founder & CEO of Ava, a women's health tech startup best-known for its ovulation tracking bracelet, stop by to talk about how they are redefining the how, when, and where of fertility care for greater success outside the doctor's office.

What's smart about this partnership? How the two companies are working together to build off the biometric data collected by Ava's tracker, basically adopting a remote monitoring approach to collecting and analyzing data in the home in effort to either help optimize the chances of getting pregnant naturally, or better inform the IVF or other medically-assisted procedures that will return as options as the pandemic wanes. From the impact on would-be-parents and their employers to the sentiment of women's health investors, we talk through the opportunities and challenges of expanding fertility care in the home.

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