The SCOTUS vote to overturn Roe v Wade has drawn greater attention to women's health and health equity. Here's a look at some of the health tech companies addressing this shifting landscape.
This dearth of maternity care providers is exacerbating the country’s less-than-stellar reputation for birth outcomes. In order to ensure better health for mothers and their newborns, OB-GYNs must identify risk factors that negatively impact pregnancy early on and work to maintain the whole picture of their pregnant patients' health. However, OB-GYNs aren’t incentivized to do this under a fee-for-service payment model.
Experts from various healthcare fields took part in five panel discussions at the Hartford Marriott Downtown on Friday ranging from transforming the industry to maternity care in the state.
The goal of the “Moving to Value Alliance” symposium, which was attended by about 160 people, was to address the status of the state’s healthcare system, which some panelists agreed is broken and needs to be fixed.