Adaptive child health and developmental monitoring for the first 1,000 days.
The problem
Early childhood health information is often fragmented across paper records, disconnected apps, practice systems and parent memory. Existing child health records may store information, but they often do not help families or clinicians know what matters, what has changed or when to act.
This contributes to underuse of child health records, missed opportunities for earlier recognition of developmental concerns, weaker continuity between home and healthcare settings, and less effective consultations.
The opportunity
There is an opportunity to move beyond simple digitisation of static records and towards more adaptive, clinically meaningful monitoring that supports both families and clinicians.
Why this matters
of surveyed parents rated vaccination schedule and reminders as a critical feature.
wanted growth charts that could be entered easily, printed and shared with clinicians.
rated developmental tracking as a critical feature.
rarely or never filled out the parental health and development questionnaire in Blue Book before appointments.
Core capabilities
- Continuous developmental surveillance rather than relying only on fixed milestone checkpoints
- Growth tracking and vaccination support within the same child health workflow
- Doctor-visit tools to help parents prepare questions, upload relevant media and retain clinically useful recommendations
- Adaptive personalisation with scope to adjust for corrected age in preterm infants and selected child-specific needs
- Research participation pathway for ethically approved paediatric studies
Design principles
- Clinically structured, not a generic parenting app
- Shaped by parent needs analysis and real workflow problems
- Focused on making information usable, not simply stored
- Built with future integration in mind across clinical practice systems and healthcare providers
- BabyOn is now embedding a structured, clinician-guided developmental interview pathway that supports more responsive monitoring between fixed checkpoints and can be demonstrated in the current product build
Who we are looking to work with
Priority conversations
- Health services and child health programmes
- Government and policy stakeholders
- Primary-care and practice-system integration partners
- Clinical validation and research collaborators
- Digital health implementation partners
Potential use cases
- More clinically meaningful digital child health records
- Support for early developmental surveillance
- Parent-facing monitoring with better continuity into care
- Improved preparation for doctor and child health visits
- Structured research and validation pathways
Team
Dr Arman Babajanyan
Clinical Lead
Specialist Paediatrician · MD, FRACP, PhD, MPH
Leads the paediatric, developmental and clinical strategy of BabyOn.
Alexander Popov
Digital Health Systems Lead
Architecture · Interoperability · Workflow
Leads systems architecture, workflow design and integration planning.
Diana Babajanyan
Clinical Neuropsychology Lead
Developmental assessment · Research
Leads neurodevelopmental and assessment input for structured developmental monitoring.
Contact
If you would like a follow-up discussion, please get in touch. We are especially interested in health-system, research, implementation and strategic partnership conversations.