Monitoring Ovarian Stimulation for Assisted Reproduction With Patient Self-Scans Using a Home Vaginal Ultrasound Device: A Single-Center Interventional, Prospective Study

Daily remote urine hormone monitoring of LH and PdG, together with age and cycle start day, can identify menstrual cycle phase and day with 95% confidence; this supports precise, patient-centric cycle tracking outside clinic settings.

Using Hormone Data and Age to Pinpoint Cycle Day within the Menstrual Cycle — Hills et al., Medicina (paywalled) · source ↗

• multimodal
• rpm
• self-collection
• fertility
• hormones
• urine

AI analysis of salivary crystallisation patterns from self-collected saliva predicted delivery dates with high accuracy in a small cohort, offering a virtually painless home monitoring option for pregnant women that could support decentralised antenatal care.

AI Aided Analysis on Saliva Crystallization of Pregnant Women for Accurate Estimation of Delivery Date and Fetal Status — Li et al., IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics (paywalled) · source ↗

• multimodal
• rpm
• self-collection
• fertility
• digital-biomarker
• saliva

The authors built a home-use ovulation detector that measures basal body temperature and cervical mucus pH, validated it in twenty women, and reported satisfactory performance for identifying fertility windows to aid both contraception and conception. This supports decentralised, patient-managed fertility monitoring integrated with smartphone e-health platforms.

Development of a Permanent Device for Fertility Period Detection by Basal Body Temperature and Analysis of the Cervical Mucus Potential of Hydrogen — Mansouri, Journal of medical signals and sensors · source ↗

• wearable
• rpm
• self-collection
• fertility
• digital-biomarker

Self-collected salivary progesterone and the ratio of estradiol to progesterone showed strong agreement with serum levels, supporting the use of saliva as a noninvasive matrix for monitoring the menstrual cycle.

Salivary estradiol and progesterone across the menstrual cycle: Association and agreement with serum concentrations — Goldenstein et al., Physiological reports · source ↗

• venous-agreement
• blood
• self-collection
• fertility
• hormones
• saliva

This proof-of-concept study demonstrated that patients with inflammatory bowel disease could successfully perform capillary blood microsampling at home with high analytical success rates, and a majority preferred this decentralised approach over hospital venous draws.

Implementation of a Capillary Blood Self-Sampling Technique at Home for Monitoring of Patients With IBD — Schuurman et al., Inflammatory bowel diseases · source ↗

• acceptability
• multimodal
• blood
• rpm
• self-collection
• capillary
• liquid