MedArrive, a care administration platform merging telehealth and in-person care, is partnering with Ouma Well being, a maternity telehealth platform, to broaden its mom and fetal in-home care choices to girls on Medicaid.
Ouma presents maternal well being care providers, together with prenatal and postpartum visits, perinatal danger stratification and mitigation counseling, behavioral well being screenings and counseling, distant affected person monitoring, continual care administration and lactation assist.
MedArrive’s supplier community of paramedics, EMTs and different healthcare suppliers go to sufferers on behalf of their medical health insurance plan, offering in-home healthcare providers, well being assessments, diagnostics and preventative well being measures. Additionally they help with transportation, vitamin and mobility.
By means of the partnership, MedArrive will add Ouma Well being’s maternal healthcare providers to its choices for managed Medicaid well being plan members.
“The MedArrive subject supplier crew is already offering essential care providers within the properties of weak individuals, and it is due to that bridge into the house that we are able to layer in Ouma’s digital MFM [maternal fetal medicine care],” Dan Trigub, CEO and cofounder of MedArrive, informed MobiHealthNews in an electronic mail.
“A mix of each the MedArrive Care Workforce and Ouma suppliers can now present mother and child holistic care from prenatal as much as one yr postpartum. After working with our well being plan or supplier companions to establish at-risk girls, our subject suppliers will go to their properties throughout our common visits, addressing many preventive and social care wants, however then can also organize for them to see an Ouma specialist which might present all of the care wanted to households earlier than, throughout and after being pregnant.”
THE LARGER TREND
Maternal mortality charges rose considerably in 2021 in comparison with earlier years, in keeping with a recent report from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.
The report discovered that 1,205 individuals within the U.S. died of maternal causes in 2021, a considerable improve from the 861 reported deaths in 2020. Charges of maternal mortality amongst Black girls had been 2.6 instances increased than these for white and Hispanic girls.
Different firms aiming to enhance maternal healthcare with digital well being embrace digital obstetric care platform Babyscripts, maternal well being startups Mahmee and Cayaba Care, and tech-enabled maternity clinic Millie.
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