From contraception to menopause, Oura brings hormonal health into focus

Oura now tracks how birth control affects sleep and recovery, and offers a new tool to measure menopause's impact on daily life.

For most of women's hormonal lives — through contraception, perimenopause, menopause — the standard of care has amounted to vague reassurance and generic symptom trackers. Oura is targeting that gap with two new features for its smart rings: Hormonal Birth Control support, which adapts its existing Cycle Insights for women using pills, patches, IUDs, implants and other hormonal methods; and Menopause Insights, which introduces a proprietary clinical questionnaire called the Menopause Impact Scale. Both roll out globally on May 6th.

The Hormonal Birth Control feature lets members log their specific contraceptive method from more than 20 combinations and see how it affects their temperature patterns, sleep and recovery over time. In the US, Oura is pairing this with a direct integration with Twentyeight Health, a women's healthcare platform, so members can book same-day clinician appointments, sync their biometric data to inform contraceptive counseling, and get prescriptions and refills delivered at home. 

Menopause Insights centers on the Menopause Impact Scale — a research-driven questionnaire built by Oura's clinical team to replace a decades-old tool developed on a small clinic-based sample. After completing the assessment, members get a personalized dashboard that tracks perimenopause symptoms across sleep, mood, cognition and daily functioning, with the option to share results with their clinician.

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What women have long been told to manage — mood swings, disrupted sleep, shifting cycles — turns out to be trackable, measurable and increasingly actionable. Oura is betting that continuous biometric data, combined with the right clinical framing, can do what a brief check-in or a general AI query can't: show someone what's actually changing in their body over time, as healthcare continues to move from episodic care to continuous context.