RhealSense began with a narrow objective: explore whether a wearable could help identify patterns associated with postpartum hemorrhage. Conversations with clinicians and subject-matter experts changed how we understand the problem and the most useful role our technology can play.
Who we are
We are a student-led team developing a connected postpartum monitoring system. The current prototype combines a compact wearable, an Android companion app and an authenticated web dashboard for care-team review.
What changed
We are no longer building a PPH-detection algorithm. Instead, RhealSense streams vital-sign and movement data, organizes it into trends and highlights deviations from an individual's baseline. Nurses and clinicians interpret those changes alongside symptoms, history and clinical observations.
The prototype currently captures optical pulse data, estimated heart rate and SpO₂, plus movement from an accelerometer. Future hardware iterations are intended to add ECG, bioimpedance and a dedicated temperature sensor.
Better maternal monitoring shouldn't be a luxury. It should be the baseline.
What's ahead
Our immediate work is to improve signal quality, tune baseline and deviation methods, test different wearable placements, and learn how to present data clearly without creating false confidence. The system is an engineering prototype and does not diagnose a condition.
Thanks for being here. There's a lot more to come.