For clinics and health systems
In early 2026, clinicians from UCLA, Cleveland Clinic and the University of Illinois published a nine-step blueprint for building a comprehensive menopause program. Nila already carries seven of those nine steps — the needs-assessment demand signal, the standardized intake pack, the graded education library, the co-branded outreach, the patient navigation between visits, and the aggregate measurement. Only governance and funding are fully yours. That is not two steps' worth of value at a fraction of the cost of a new clinic — it is seven.
What the paper found
Access
More than two million women reach menopause each year in the United States, in a stage that spans roughly 40% of life expectancy. Few systems offer coordinated services at all.
Clinician knowledge
Training gaps, time-constrained visits and the absence of standardized workflows mean care depends on which clinician you happen to reach.
No scalable model
The bottleneck has pulled in direct-to-consumer platforms selling unproven supplements and compounded hormones. Demand is being met, just not well.
Half of women with menopause symptoms receive no treatment, and fewer than 5% of eligible women use menopause hormone therapy.
Narrative review and expert consensus, not comparative-effectiveness research. The authors say so themselves.
Read the sourceThe blueprint, step by step
Seven of the nine steps have something Nila carries on day one. Two are yours: governance and how the program gets funded. We are not going to pretend otherwise.
What the blueprint asks for
Size the midlife population you serve, the referral backlog, the wait times and the unmet symptom burden, then take it to leadership.
What Nila supplies
Aggregate, de-identified demand signal from your covered members: which symptoms they are logging, what they are searching for, where they stall. Plus the published cost and prevalence figures already sourced on our numbers page.
See the numbersWhat the blueprint asks for
Set goals in four domains so the program has more than a clinic schedule behind it.
What Nila supplies
Nila covers the education and community domains out of the box, and can carry a research arm through our originals and study-recruitment partnerships.
Research partnershipsWhat the blueprint asks for
A senior champion, plus obstetrics and gynecology, primary care, and advanced practice clinicians with menopause-specific training.
Yours, not ours. Nila has nothing useful to add here, and a vendor who claims otherwise is selling you something.
What the blueprint asks for
Standardized intake, triage, and visit workflows so care does not depend on which clinician a patient happens to reach.
What Nila supplies
The pre-appointment pack: a structured symptom timeline, what has been tried, current medications and the patient's top three asks, exported as a PDF the patient brings in. It turns an unstructured first visit into a reviewable document.
See the packWhat the blueprint asks for
The clinician knowledge gap is named as the central failure. No system meets demand if only a handful of clinicians are equipped.
What Nila supplies
An A to D graded evidence library with every claim traced to a named source, a hormone therapy options matrix, and dosing and brand references your team can hand to a trainee on day one.
How we grade evidenceWhat the blueprint asks for
Programs need to be findable, and the narrative around menopause has to change locally, not just nationally.
What Nila supplies
Co-branded member-facing pages and a social and content kit, so a program launch has something to point at in week one instead of month nine.
Partnership optionsWhat the blueprint asks for
Funds flow, downstream attribution, philanthropy and grateful-patient fundraising.
Yours, not ours. Nila has nothing useful to add here, and a vendor who claims otherwise is selling you something.
What the blueprint asks for
Targeted outreach, clear referral pathways, simplified scheduling, and digital navigation tools that support triage and coordinate across settings.
What Nila supplies
This is the core of what Nila is. Symptom guides in plain language, doorways that route someone to the right kind of help, daily tracking with pattern interpretation, and a cited assistant that answers between visits instead of at the front desk.
See the doorwaysWhat the blueprint asks for
Track access, experience, equity and long-term trajectories, and feed it back into program design.
What Nila supplies
Aggregate engagement and symptom-trend reporting for covered cohorts. Never individual records, never anything that identifies a patient to the institution.
Privacy and compliance briefStart where you are
The paper's own framework is resource-tiered: foundational, expanding, advanced. So is this.
Foundational
A single clinic or a small practice group
Expanding
A multi-site group or a regional program
Advanced
A health system or a payer
What Nila is not
