What is the name of your organization?
Global Strategies
What is the name of your solution?
NoviGuide Newborn Essentials
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NoviGuide Newborn Essentials is a clinical decision support application that helps clinicians manage complex newborn care in resource-limited settings
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Albany, CA
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
United States
What type of organization is your solution team?
Nonprofit
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What specific problem are you solving?
Every year, 2.5 million newborns die—most from preventable causes. Despite global efforts, we’re falling short of the UN’s goal to reduce newborn mortality to 12 deaths per 1,000 live births in every country, especially in low-resource settings. Why is progress so slow? Because newborns are one of the hardest populations to reach. The care they need is highly specialized, and neonatal intensive care units—the gold standard—are expensive, complex, and difficult to scale.
What is your solution?
The NoviGuide point-of-care application helps clinicians care for sick and small newborns by providing step-by-step guidance through complex neonatal guidelines—critical in the first 48 hours of life. Delivered primarily on low-cost Android tablets, and used today more than 250,000 times per year, this easy-to-use application fits seamlessly into busy clinical workflows.
NoviGuide empowers nurses and doctors to make real-time care decisions that:
Align with regional guidelines, best practices, and local language
Optimize care using available resources
Ensure safety by accurately calculating medication and nutrition for babies as small as two pounds
By making diagnosis and treatment faster, safer, and easier, NoviGuide helps save newborn lives.
But we don’t stop at care—we close the loop with data. As clinicians use NoviGuide, every interaction generates real-time data that feeds into the NoviGuide Insights Dashboard—a powerful analytics tool for health administrators. It bridges the gap between national guidelines and real-world bedside care by revealing site-specific barriers in knowledge, training, and resources. This continuous feedback loop drives smarter decisions, stronger health systems, and ultimately, better outcomes for the most vulnerable patients.
Product demo: https://youtube.com/shorts/onA-Iujw2NE
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Our solution is built for frontline nurses, doctors and midwives caring for newborns in resource-limited settings—often under immense pressure, with limited tools and support. Too often, frontline clinicians are treated as tools in a system, rather than empowered as the primary agents of care. NoviGuide was built to make every clinician more powerful—more confident in decision-making, faster at recognizing danger signs, better at using equipment appropriately, and more effective in capturing data to inform broader health system improvements.
By transforming dense neonatal guidelines into simple, interactive care pathways that are tailored to the resources available in their settings, NoviGuide helps clinicians deliver high-quality care even in the most challenging environments. Clinicians have been design partners with us every step of the way. They asked for support that respected their expertise and met their real-world needs. NoviGuide doesn't replace the medical team—it amplifies their impact, enabling high-quality care delivery while also capturing data to drive systematic health improvements.
In the hands of a medical professional, NoviGuide becomes more than a tool—it’s a catalyst for better outcomes for newborns and stronger health systems.
