Western Australia’s Joondalup Health Campus (JHC) will offer all pregnant women under its care the ability to monitor their progress at home using a smart handheld device to reduce the number of times they need to visit the hospital.

JHC, which offers public and private hospital services in a combined 722-bed service operated by Ramsay Health Care, has been running a trial of Israeli company HeraMED’s technology since early last year, initially for monitoring fetal heart rate (FHR) in low-risk pregnant women.