Behind the Guardrails: How Oura Evaluates Generative AI to Earn Trust
Oura is tackling the safety challenge of generative AI in health by treating its entire intelligence ecosystem as a clinically guided product rather than a standalone model. The company’s Oura Advisor feature is evaluated against realistic member questions, data scenarios, and strict response criteria, with clinicians embedded in the loop to define boundaries, escalation, and tone. Oura built an internal benchmarking tool that runs synthetic scenarios through multiple LLM judges, scoring accuracy, recall, precision and false‑alarm rates, allowing regression testing before release. Recent model upgrades reduced false alarms from 10% to 0% while maintaining clinical recall.
How Essence Healthcare Uses ŌURA to Proactively Connect Members to Physicians for Sleep Apnea Risk Evaluation
Essence Healthcare, a Medicare Advantage plan, launched a covered Oura Ring benefit in 2025 to collect continuous sleep data from seniors. Using Oura’s Breathing Disturbance Index, the plan flags members with a BDI of 15 or higher and initiates an...
Oura and Counsel Health Partner to Provide AI-Enabled Care Within the Oura App
Oura is launching a new connected‑care feature that embeds Counsel Health’s AI‑driven medical platform directly into the Oura app. Beginning June 16, the service will roll out to eligible members in 43 U.S. states, allowing users to chat with a...
Coming Soon: New Oura Features to Help You Stay Ahead of Your Health
Oura is launching the fifth‑generation Oura Ring alongside a suite of new software features that roll out in June 2026. The updates include Health Radar, which continuously monitors blood‑pressure signals and nighttime breathing, GLP‑1 Insights that sync medication data with...
Introducing GLP-1 Insights
Oura announced GLP‑1 Insights, a new in‑app experience launching in June 2026 for Ring Gen3 and newer users in the United States, United Arab Emirates, and India. The feature bundles dose tracking, side‑effect logging, weight monitoring and a personalized Oura...
The Menopause Impact Scale: A Modern Tool for Perimenopause Symptom Evaluation and Clinical Care
Oura has introduced the Menopause Impact Scale (MIS), a scientifically‑validated patient‑reported outcomes survey that measures the quality‑of‑life impact of 22 perimenopause and post‑menopause symptoms. Unlike legacy tools that focus only on symptom frequency or severity, MIS scores each symptom’s effect...
Oura: Built for Women’s Health Across Every Life Stage
Oura has tailored its Ring wearable to support women’s health from menstruation through menopause, delivering near‑continuous data on temperature, heart‑rate variability, sleep and cycle phases. The device averages 23.5 hours of wear per day and its ovulation algorithm achieved 96.4%...
Resmed and Oura Are Partnering to Expand Access to Sleep Health Education and Care
Oura and ResMed have teamed up to embed ResMed’s sleep‑health resources directly into the Oura Ring app. When the Ring detects elevated breathing disturbances, users receive alerts and can instantly access a sleep assessment, educational guides, and virtual or in‑person...
7 Ways to Increase Your Restorative Time on Oura
Oura’s Restorative Time feature quantifies how long users stay in a parasympathetic, relaxed state by analyzing movement, finger temperature, heart rate and HRV. The blog outlines seven science‑backed tactics—deep breathing, calming music, NSDR, reading, guided meditation, relaxing media, and tea—to...
5 Questions to Consider When Choosing a Birth Control Method
Choosing a birth control method involves weighing hormonal versus non‑hormonal options, each with distinct efficacy rates ranging from 87% to 99% for typical use. The article outlines five key questions—effectiveness, daily management, medical compatibility, future fertility plans, and STI risk—to...
Introducing Two New Hormonal Health Features: Birth Control Support and Menopause Insights
Oura announced two new experiences in its app—Hormonal Birth Control support within Cycle Insights and Menopause Insights—aimed at delivering personalized guidance during hormonal changes. The features integrate continuous biometric data from the Ring with self‑reported hormone information, providing symptom tracking,...
How Does Hormonal Birth Control Work?
Oura’s Cycle Insights now includes Hormonal Birth Control support, letting users track how various contraceptives influence temperature, heart‑rate variability, resting heart rate, and sleep. The article breaks down combined pills, patches and rings, progestin‑only pills, implants, IUDs, and injections, explaining...
ŌURA Named Official Wearable of the USTA, USTA Coaching and Official Sponsor, Official Wearable of the US Open
Oura announced a five‑year deal making its ring the official wearable sponsor of the US Open, the USTA, and USTA Coaching – the first wearable partnership in USTA history. The agreement equips every Main Draw player with a ring, integrates...
U.S. Soccer and ŌURA Announce Long-Term Partnership, Naming Oura Ring Official Wearable of U.S. Soccer
Oura and U.S. Soccer have forged a long‑term partnership naming the Oura Ring the Official Wearable of U.S. Soccer and a founding partner of the Arthur M. Blank National Training Center. The ring will be deployed across all 27 national...
ŌURA Welcomes Galen AI Team, Acquires Technology to Advance Connected Health AI Roadmap
Oura announced the acquisition of Galen AI’s technology and the integration of its founding team. Galen AI, a Stanford‑spun startup, built an AI‑powered health companion that unifies medical records, labs, prescriptions, and wearable data. The move bolsters Oura’s AI roadmap,...