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Bassel Wattar: Can Technology Help Us Improve IVF Success Rates?
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Sep 27, 2026, 12:45

Bassel Wattar: Can Technology Help Us Improve IVF Success Rates?

Bassel Wattar, Chair Professor of Reproductive Medicine and Surgery at Anglia Ruskin University, shared on LinkedIn:

“Can technology help us improve IVF success rates?

Despite major advances in IVF technology over the past four decades, around 70% of treatment cycles still do not result in a live birth.

We invest considerable effort investigating IVF ‘add-ons’ designed to overcome biological limitations, despite many producing relatively small or uncertain improvements in overall outcomes.

This raises an important question:

Should we not focus on the parts of IVF failure that are actually modifiable?

When an IVF cycle fails, the reasons can broadly be grouped into four areas:

  1. Biology – poor egg quality, sperm quality or embryo developmental potential.
  2. Aneuploidy – embryos carrying an abnormal number of chromosomes.
  3. Human error and treatment variability – incorrect dosing, suboptimal stimulation decisions, inappropriate trigger or egg collection timing, or variation in procedural skills.
  4. Patient error and treatment complexity – IVF is complicated. Missed medications, incorrect timing or misunderstanding instructions can affect an entire cycle.

The first two are largely driven by biology and can be difficult to modify.

But 3. and 4. are potentially highly modifiable.

Novel cloud based technology could have a major impact in optimising IVF cycle conduct, systems feedback, and patient-clinician interaction to reduce errors and improve clinical outcome.

None of this changes embryo biology, but it could make IVF delivery more consistent and potentially improving success per cycle.

Perhaps we should invest just as much in making sure that every IVF cycle is delivered as accurately, consistently and efficiently as possible.

The next meaningful improvement in IVF success may not come from adding another treatment.

It may come from using technology, data and automation to deliver the treatments we already have better.”

Bassel Wattar, Technology

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