Most Viewed Insights on Digital Health, Value-Based Care and Maternal Health
Wildflower Health
Transforming care delivery and payment models in women’s health to radically improve outcomes
Throughout the year, Wildflower provides our insights on where digital health, value-based care and maternal health are headed and how the healthcare system can better support the evolving needs of families. We appreciate the robust discussions that build on these insights. From 2024, we’re sharing excerpts and links to our most read blogs.
Wildflower Health extends its support of pregnant women and new parents to include virtual and in-person lactation services
Wildflower delivers personalized experiences that activate women in their own care, while simplifying the healthcare journey for families with a modular model of human touch and digital tools. To continue that mission of care, Wildflower offers lactation support.
Wildflower’s lactation capabilities encompass the third trimester through postpartum breastfeeding needs of new parents. Nationwide virtual appointments and in-person appointments are available to schedule, including same-day appointments.
A majority of families do not breastfeed for as long as they intend to, and breastfeeding disparities by race and ethnicity persist. The CDC states in its Breastfeeding Report Card that the steady decline in any and exclusive breastfeeding from month-to-month indicates that breastfeeding families may need stronger systems of support to reach their breastfeeding goals.
“At Wildflower, we empower women and families in their care. We want to encourage moms to reach their breastfeeding goals, which for many can be hindered by a lack of support or answers,” said Leah Sparks, founder and CEO of Wildflower Health. “Breastfeeding is a very personal care experience that can’t always be answered by a simple article. Families need that individual support that can be accomplished with virtual and in-person lactation consultations, from trusted and knowledgeable IBCLCs.”
Read more about the lactation care provided by Wildflower IBCLCs
How Payers and Providers Can Collaborate Digitally to Improve Maternal Health Outcomes: A Case Study from the State of Nevada
During a recent webinar sponsored by Becker’s Hospital Review, Wildflower Health, Health Plan of Nevada (HPN) and Women's Health Associates of Southern Nevada (WHASN) showcased a unique partnership aimed at improving engagement, care coordination and maternal health outcomes. By creating a unified digital experience for individuals for both provider and health plan support and resources, HPN and WHASN facilitated more holistic and timely care for expectant mothers. The Q&A summary from the webinar includes:
How did this partnership come to life?
What does this networked solution look like, and how does it work?
Has HPN seen value from this collaboration?
This is still a rather unique approach for a provider and a health plan to collaborate digitally like this. What challenges have you navigated and/or what lessons have your learned?
Read more for the payer-provider discussion from these questions
Risky Business – How Wildflower Finds and Supports High-Risk Pregnancies as a Critical Component of Value-Based Maternity Models
An important part of improving maternal health outcomes within a given population is being proactive and staying ahead of complications that can lead to worse, and more costly, outcomes for mom and baby. Traditional methods for stratifying risk in healthcare aren’t dynamic or comprehensive enough to ensure success. Here’s how we approach risk stratification in maternity care, and what we’ve learned from our model.
Comprehensive
Many organizations talk about serving the “whole patient” but to do that, you must be able to identify clinical, behavioral and SDoH risk factors, all of which have a significant impact on a person's health. Legacy risk models often focus on specific clinical metrics but miss incredibly important and impactful pieces of the puzzle.
Continuous
It’s not enough to screen patients early in pregnancy or upon some discrete event, such as downloading an app or completing a survey. You need to continuously monitor for risk throughout the pregnancy and dynamically respond to changes in their risk score based on new data.
Dynamic
The risk model has to be capable of integrating and weighting multiple inputs to smartly assign patients to the right level of risk. It also has to learn and refine the scoring algorithm over time as you glean new insights from the overall data.
We look forward to sharing more insights with our clients, partners and industry collaborators, and continuing the conversations into 2025.