NeoCare MedTech
SAMIRA • Development-stage neonatal diagnostic technology

Non-invasive assessment for newborn care.

SAMIRA is NeoCare’s development-stage platform concept for painless, rapid and non-invasive neonatal assessment. The platform direction focuses on three important newborn-care workflows: anemia, jaundice and oxygen saturation.

Newborn representing NeoCare MedTech
AnemiaHemoglobin-related assessment
JaundiceBilirubin-related assessment
Oxygen saturationHypoxia-related workflow
Clinical need

Newborn assessment should be faster, gentler and easier to access.

Anemia, jaundice and hypoxia-related oxygen-saturation issues remain important newborn-health concerns. Conventional testing often depends on blood sampling, laboratory infrastructure and waiting time before reports are available.

42.6%

Anemia burden

Estimated newborn anemia prevalence, with severe and mild anemia linked to mortality risk.
60–80%

Jaundice burden

Estimated prevalence of neonatal jaundice in full-term and pre-term newborns, with significant mortality burden.
1.4M

Hypoxia burden

Estimated child-death burden associated with low oxygen saturation levels.
Pain points

Why does conventional testing create friction?

Pain and stress

Repeated needle punctures can be traumatic.

Blood-based testing may create emotional stress for newborns and parents, especially when repeated samples are required.

Delayed reporting

Reports are not always instantaneous.

Laboratory testing can introduce waiting time, which may slow decisions and increase anxiety during newborn care.

Infrastructure burden

Testing depends on costly equipment and staff.

Conventional workflows can require laboratory infrastructure, trained personnel and maintenance-heavy systems.

Technology focus

SAMIRA is designed around multi-parameter neonatal assessment.

The technology direction combines optical/sensing-system thinking with parameter-estimation workflows. The website language remains validation-aware and avoids overclaiming current clinical readiness.

Hemoglobin

Anemia assessment

Hemoglobin-related assessment is part of the SAMIRA platform direction for neonatal anemia workflows.

Bilirubin

Jaundice assessment

Bilirubin-related assessment is part of the SAMIRA platform direction for neonatal jaundice monitoring workflows.

Oxygen

Oxygen saturation

Oxygen-saturation workflow support is included in the platform direction for hypoxia-related newborn assessment.

System concept

Optical signal acquisition translated into clinical workflow support.

The SAMIRA concept uses a non-invasive optical measurement approach that combines a light source, fiber/probe, spectrometer and user-interface workflow for estimating newborn-health parameters.

  • Non-invasive optical signal acquisition
  • Signal-quality review before interpretation
  • Multi-parameter output direction
  • Future IoT and telemedicine-compatible reporting
Cleaned SAMIRA optical assessment concept

System concept figure

A simplified website-ready figure showing the SAMIRA optical assessment workflow.

Market position

Where does NeoCare stand in the market?

Current newborn-assessment workflows are often fragmented across separate parameters and separate care steps. NeoCare is developing SAMIRA as a non-invasive, multi-parameter direction that aims to reduce friction while remaining validation-aware.

Current landscape

Assessment is often parameter-specific.

In many clinical pathways, hemoglobin, bilirubin and oxygen-related assessment are handled through separate devices, tests or decision steps rather than one integrated workflow.

NeoCare direction

One platform, multiple assessment directions.

SAMIRA is being developed to bring optical acquisition, signal processing and multi-parameter interpretation into a unified platform direction for newborn-care support.

Public position

Validation-aware and clinically responsible.

NeoCare presents SAMIRA as a development-stage technology direction intended to support clinical workflows, with future claims guided by formal validation, clinical studies and regulatory pathways.

Cleaned SAMIRA product roadmap

Development roadmap

A staged roadmap from the SAMIRA benchtop platform to ASAMIR handheld deployment and connected reporting.

Product roadmap

From prototype validation to connected-care readiness.

The development roadmap moves from prototype validation toward a more compact, trial-oriented device and mobile-style reporting. On the website, this is framed as a roadmap rather than a current commercial claim.

  • Current SAMIRA benchtop prototype and optical workflow development
  • ASAMIR handheld device direction for hemoglobin, bilirubin and oxygen assessment
  • Connected reporting and telemedicine-ready output direction
Market opportunity

A large testing need creates demand for better workflows.

The potential market for newborn testing and related assessment workflows is substantial. The figures below are directional market indicators for website communication.

3.6M

Babies born

Estimated annual births in the United States.
24M

Blood tests/year

Estimated annual newborn-related testing volume.
$844M

Total market size

Indicative market-size estimate for testing-related opportunity.
Validation-aware positioning

Evidence matters before stronger claims are made.

Earlier validation activity indicates promising alignment with conventional testing. For public website use, this should be framed carefully: formal revalidation remains necessary for regulatory and market-specific purposes.

  • Development-stage technology, not presented as a currently approved clinical device.
  • Prior validation activity should be followed by formal revalidation for regulatory use.
  • Claims should remain aligned with future clinical studies, regulatory review and intended-use definitions.
Regulatory note

Adjunctive-use mindset

SAMIRA should be positioned as a technology direction intended to support clinical workflows, not replace standard-of-care testing or clinician judgement. Future indications, claims and use environments must be defined through validation and regulatory pathways.

Future pipeline

Extending optical/sensing concepts beyond newborn care.

NeoCare is also exploring a future product-roadmap direction for urinary bladder cancer detection from unprocessed urine samples. This is included as a pipeline item, separate from the current neonatal SAMIRA positioning.

  • Separate NeoCare product-development stream
  • Non-invasive urinary bladder cancer screening from unprocessed urine samples
  • PCT applied: PCT/IN 2022/050828
  • Small-scale clinical trial completed; large-scale clinical trial ongoing
Future pipeline bladder cancer detection prototype

Pipeline concept figure

Positioned as a future roadmap item within the broader NeoCare pipeline.

Discuss NeoCare MedTech.

For MedTech partnerships, neonatal assessment discussions, validation planning or collaboration opportunities, contact Dr. Singh directly.