The New Script with Frances Goh & Makenzie Thomas How Kali Healthcare is Reimagining Fetal Monitoring to Improve Pregnancy Outcomes
With Emerson Keenan
About Fiona Brownfoot
Fiona Brownfoot is an associate professor, practising obstetrician at the Mercy Hospital for Women, and co-founder of Kali Healthcare, a University of Melbourne spin-out. Alongside researchers Professor Marimuthu Palaniswami and Dr Emerson Keenan, she is developing a wearable fetal heart-rate monitor designed to let pregnant women move freely while enabling home-based monitoring through telehealth. The startup closed a $1 million pre-seed round in 2023, backed by the University of Melbourne, LaunchVic's Alice Anderson Fund and private investors, and has since run pilot clinical trials at Mercy Hospital ahead of its first regulatory trial. She discussed the technology on The New Script's episode about reimagining fetal monitoring.
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Key moments from How Kali Healthcare is Reimagining Fetal Monitoring to Improve Pregnancy Outcomes.
- 2:45Fiona and Emerson speak about their backgrounds
- 3:26Origins of Kali Healthcare
- 6:00How Kali Healthcare's electrical sensing wearable patch works
- 7:27How clinicians are making use of the real-time insights
- 10:00What makes Kali Healthcare’s wearable different to existing solutions
- 13:33Breakthroughs they’ve experienced
- 16:00Stepping into the founder role and the "ultimate rollercoaster"
- 20:02Fundraising lessons: why it always takes longer than you think
- 21:09Advice for other healthcare founders
The path so far.
- Now
Co-Founder · Kali Healthcare
- Earlier
Clinician Scientist / Associate Professor · University of Melbourne
- Earlier
Obstetrician · Mercy Hospital for Women
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Obstetrician · Epworth Freemasons
Sources: kalihealthcare.com
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