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Gaining Ground: How We Improve Maternity Care Access for Rural Medicaid Beneficiaries
In our latest ebook, we examine two major access issues for maternity care among rural Medicaid beneficiaries, and we explore solutions to address them. Learn how maternity care deserts and low reimbursement rates are negatively impacting care and the models required for positive change.
Value-Based Care is Currently a Boy’s Club. We Need to Make Sure Women Can Join the Party.
Value-based care is a compelling model for improving the delivery of women's health and addressing maternal health outcomes specifically. The problem is that value-based models are currently leaving a majority of women on the sidelines. What can we do to ensure more women are actively engaged via value-based care?
No More Patience, No More Pilots. A Call to Action for How We Approach Maternal Health in the United States
The National Center for Health Statistics recently reported a 40 percent increase in maternal deaths in the U.S. in 2021. Wildflower founder Leah Sparks reflects on these heartbreaking results and issues a call to action to the healthcare industry to improve maternal health outcomes. The time for patience is over. Progress is no longer enough. What we need now is transformation.
Four Myths, One Truth and the Way Forward for Addressing Maternity Deserts with Technology: Highlights from an Expert Maternal Health Panel
During a recent webinar organized by Thinc, an expert panel dispelled myths and shared best practices for using technology to close gaps in maternity care access. Here's a summary of the session and a link to the full recording.
Overcoming SDoH Needs to Support Healthy Mothers and Babies: Key Priorities for the Future of Maternal Health
The recent Texas Collaborative for Healthy Mothers and Babies (TCHMB) 2023 Summit offered insights and opportunities for addressing Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) as a key strategy for improving maternal and neonatal health outcomes. Here is a summary of themes and thoughts from the meeting.
Investment in Digital Health Is Experiencing a Dramatic Slowdown. Is This the Beginning of the End, or the Start of Something Special?
After explosive and dynamic growth in recent years, digital health funding is in decline. Is digital health falling out of favor? Or is this a course correction that leads to a stronger, healthier digital health space?