What You Should Know:
- Babyscripts, a virtual maternity care provider, has partnered with Lyft to address transportation insecurity among pregnant women in Washington D.C.
- This innovative collaboration provides free rides to maternity care appointments, improving access to essential care and reducing health disparities.
Tackling Maternity Care Deserts
Washington D.C. faces significant challenges in maternal health, with high rates of maternal mortality and limited
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Lyft & Babyscripts Partner to Offer Rides for Prenatal Appointments, Addressing Transportation Barriers
What You Should Know:
- Babyscripts, the leader in virtual maternity care, and Lyft Healthcare have joined forces to eliminate a major hurdle for expectant mothers: transportation.
- The strategic collaboration provides sponsored rides to and from doctor appointments for transportation-insecure patients enrolled in Babyscripts' program.
Ensuring Access to Essential Care
Pregnant women, regardless of their risk factors, will now have access to reliable transportation for
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Why Maternity Care Deserts Aren’t Going Away. Here’s What Can Be Done
For a long time, healthcare providers in the U.S. have been putting band-aids on the problem of maternity care deserts, propping up existing services for pregnant women and new mothers with temporary fixes.
The problem shows no sign of resolving, and it won't until we recognize that the issues at its heart are not temporary. They represent deeper, permanent changes in national demographics and healthcare delivery. And they require permanent solutions.
A DECLINING BIRTH
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22 Executive Digital Health Predictions to Watch in 2023
Jon Bloom, MD, CEO and Co-founder of Podimetrics
From a digital health perspective, 2022 was a reset year for many and a serious reality check. We went from sky high growth to the sky is falling, and in 2023 I think this market correction movement will continue forward. To me, the biggest surprise of 2022 was that despite the market tanking, digital health companies continued to truck forward with huge deals. This includes massive acquisitions like Amazon and OneMedical, as well as deals like
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4 Factors Driving Healthcare Transformation in 2022 to Watch
As the healthcare industry becomes more interconnected in response to a wide range of economic and societal factors, the landscape is changing for all parties involved, including payers, providers, and patients.
In a dynamic time for the industry, here are four of the main factors driving the changes and what they mean for the primary stakeholders:
The lines between traditional and digital are blurring
As startups and traditional providers race to meet their patient's
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Why Digital Transformation Is Imperative to Combat Healthcare’s Labor Crisis
As the coronavirus pandemic first spread across the globe, health systems turned to technology and virtual care while focusing their efforts on COVID-19 and its consequences. Physicians deployed digital tools to keep the worried well out of hospitals, to keep beds open for COVID-19 patients, and to support and manage conditions like pregnancy from the safety of patients’ homes.
Now the healthcare sector faces a new challenge. The so-called “Great Resignation” is causing workers to leave their
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LCMC Health Delivers Remote Pregnancy Care to More Than 1,200 Mothers Through Babyscripts
What You Should Know:
- Babyscripts, a virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, announced a one-year partnership with LCMC Health, a New Orleans-based, non-profit health system.
- The partnership has provided more than 1,200 mothers with equitable access to care through the Babyscripts virtual maternity care platform and has been shown to increase patient compliance to important maternal care guidelines.
LCMC Health Delivers Remote
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Femtech Startup Babyscripts Secures Additional $7.5M for Virtual Maternity Care Solution
What You Should Know:
- Femtech startup Babyscripts, the leading virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, has announced an additional $7.5M has been raised during the second close of their Series B funding round.
- Investments from Cigna Ventures, Texas Medical Center Venture Fund and Atlantic Health System brings the Series B raise to $19M to date. Babyscripts has raised a total of $37M to date. Memorial Innovation Fund led the initial Series B round, joined
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Babyscripts, NUVO Partner to Deliver Comprehensive Remote Pregnancy Care Solution
What You Should Know:
- Babyscripts, a virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, today announced a strategic partnership with Nuvo Group, a femtech startup commercializing INVU by Nuvo™, an FDA-cleared, remote fetal monitoring and management platform. InVU by Nuvo features a user-friendly wearable sensor band that gives physicians an inside look into the womb, remotely to drive critical diagnostic decisions wherever the patient is.
- By integrating Nuvo’s INVU technology
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Femtech Startup Babyscripts Secures $12M for Virtual Maternity Care Solution
What You Should Know:
- Babyscripts, a Washington D.C.-based virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, announced it has raised $12M in Series B funding led by MemorialCare Innovation Fund, a strategic healthcare investment company, and will focus on the rollout of Babyscripts Virtual Maternity Care solution to providers across the US, as well as the development of care models specifically targeted to payers. Other investors in the Series B round include Philips and the CU Healthcare
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