In Pittsburgh, a team led by Carnegie Mellon University has been granted up to $39.3 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to create a wearable monitoring system. This system, known as OMEGA (Optical, Mechanical, and Electrical Global Assessment), is designed to improve the detection of fetal distress during labor and delivery. The goal is to provide a safer experience for mothers and babies by identifying the cause of fetal distress more accurately. OMEGA aims to modernize the current 50-year-old, indirect monitoring methods.