Oura, the company behind the smart ring of the same name, has announced two new features aimed at helping women track the hormonal shifts that occur across different life stages. The first offers support for hormonal birth control and the other is a menopause insights tool. Both features begin rolling out globally on May 6.
The birth control feature adapts Oura's existing Cycle Insights tool for women using hormonal contraception, including pills, patches, IUDs, and implants. Users can log their specific method from more than 20 options and see how their contraception may be influencing biometric readings such as temperature, sleep, and recovery.
The idea is to help women distinguish between expected physiological shifts and changes that fall outside their usual patterns. In the US, Oura is partnering with Twentyeight Health, a women's healthcare platform, to allow users to book same-day appointments with licensed clinicians, sync their cycle and sleep data to inform contraceptive consultations, and receive prescriptions and refills via virtual visits.
The second feature, Menopause Insights, is aimed at the more than one billion women worldwide estimated to be in perimenopause or post-menopause. Central to it is what Oura calls the Menopause Impact Scale, a proprietary clinical questionnaire. It covers sleep, mood, cognition, and daily functioning, and generates a personalised dashboard showing how strongly perimenopause appears to be affecting a user's daily life. Results can be saved and shared with healthcare providers.
Both features complement an existing suite of women's health tools Oura has developed, which also includes fertility window tracking and pregnancy insights. The company has also released what it describes as a domain-specific AI model designed to interpret women's health data through a more clinically informed lens.
Oura's clinical director of women's health, Chris Curry, said the features are intended to give women and their clinicians a clearer view of what is changing.
“Menopause Insights brings each member's long-term biometric patterns together with what they're experiencing day to day. That gives women and their clinicians a shared, clearer view of what's actually changing — so how they feel and what their data shows is in the same conversation,” he said.