Unfiltered Stories | Innovations to improve maternity health

In this HFS Videocast, Rohan Kulkarni, Practice Leader, Healthcare and Life Sciences at HFS, and Leah Sparks, CEO at Wildflower discuss innovations that are helping improve maternity health. Women die in childbirth in the US at up to 3X the rate of other developed countries and preterm births are more than 50% higher than in other OECD countries while more than 2M women of childbearing age live in maternity deserts. In this videocast, we discuss: The approach Wildflower is taking with the use of technology and services to impact the maternal mortality rate (MMR) The growing use of value-based care and reasons it is effective with maternity health compared to other conditions The role of social determinants of health in maternity health The ground-level impact of the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade