Patient taking blood pressure
The effects of hypertension in pregnancy and its ongoing implications for women's health were under consideration this week, partially due to Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting. Experts weigh the importance of remote patient monitoring to supplement telehealth and debate ongoing concerns about COVID, the vaccine and pregnancy. 

2/4, Contemporary OB-GYN: Chronic hypertension in women with pregestational diabetes

2/3, Contemporary OB-GYN: Hypertension and persistent inflammation with prior preeclampsia

2/3, MedCity News: Remote patient monitoring is not the "future." It's the "now."

2/2, Medscape: COVID in Pregnancy Tied to Hypertension, Preeclampsia

2/2, Bloomberg: Pregnant People Deserve Better Data on COVID-19

2/2, Kansas City Star: One mother’s fight on ‘the front lines of a revolution’ to save Black mothers, babies

2/1, MedPage Today: Can High Postpartum Blood Pressure Predict Future Hypertension Risk?

2/1, Health Affairs: Strategic Priorities For The Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Services To Advance Medicaid Reform

1/22, Healthcare IT News: How to win physician confidence in remote patient monitoring programs

Consumer Corner

2/3, The New York Times: What's in Your Prenatal Vitamin? (Dr. Nate DeNicola)

1/25, The List: What an OB-GYN Wants You To Know Before Getting a Birth Control Implant (Dr. Lauren Demosthenes)

 

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