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title: 10/16/2020 The State of Maternity Care and Digital Health Tech
description: Women are opening up about loss, miscarriage, and depression during pregnancy. Industry questions around Covid and how it continues to change healthcare.
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# [10/16/2020 The State of Maternity Care and Digital Health Tech](https://babyscripts.com/blog/10/16/2020-the-state-of-maternity-care-and-digital-health-tech)

 Written by [The Babyscripts Team](https://babyscripts.com/blog/author/the-babyscripts-team) | October 16

In the news this week, women are pushing through stigmas to speak up about the realities of miscarriage, loss, and depression during and after pregnancy. The barriers of social determinants of health are in the spotlight as questions of health equity continue to occupy the industry. Plus, concerns over Covid and how it is continuing to change the industry.

10/15, Popsugar: [A Mom on Maternal Mental Health For Women of Color: "Society Holds This False Expectation"](https://www.popsugar.com/family/women-color-need-better-access-to-maternal-mental-health-47882741)

10/15, The Washington Post: [When we lost our baby at 23 weeks, I didn’t realize how important a virtual network would be](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/10/15/pregnancy-loss/)

10/15, FDA: [FDA Warns that Using a Type of Pain and Fever Medication in Second Half of Pregnancy Could Lead to Complications](https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-warns-using-type-pain-and-fever-medication-second-half-pregnancy-could-lead-complications)

10/14, Healthcare Finance: [Addressing maternal mortality, access to care and the digital divide](https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/video/addressing-maternal-mortality-access-care-and-digital-divide)

10/14, CFO: [7 Ways COVID-19 Will Transform Health Care](https://www.cfo.com/health-benefits/2020/10/7-ways-covid-19-will-transform-health-care/)

10/14, New York Times: [For Pregnant Women, a Push to Head Off Depression Before It Starts](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/us/depression-mothers-babies-mental-health-prenatal-postnatal-care.html)

10/7, Morningstar: [Dollars to Doctors: How the Coronavirus Could Reshape Healthcare Spending](https://www.morningstar.com/articles/1003350/dollars-to-doctors-how-the-coronavirus-could-reshape-healthcare-spending)

ICYMI: [Babyscripts welcomes Haywood Brown, MD, former president of ACOG ](https://www.prweb.com/releases/babyscripts_welcomes_haywood_brown_md_former_president_of_acog_to_advisory_board/prweb17450340.htm)

 

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