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title: 4/24/2020 The State of Maternity Care and Digital Health Tech
description: The week's news on telehealth during COVID-19 and as a future standard of care, especially in maternal health. Plus, research on pregnancy and COVID-19.
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# [4/24/2020 The State of Maternity Care and Digital Health Tech](https://babyscripts.com/blog/4/24/2020-the-state-of-maternity-care-and-digital-health-tech)

 Written by [The Babyscripts Team](https://babyscripts.com/blog/author/the-babyscripts-team) | April 24

As state and federal governments begin discussions on how to reopen the economy, practices are looking toward the future too -- how to get patients back into the office, and how to integrate pandemic workflows in a post-pandemic world [[see our interview with Dr. Sylvia Romm for a firsthand account of the questions facing practices post-Covid](https://babyscripts.com/interview-with-sylvia-romm-md-chief-innovation-officer-at-atlantic-health-system)]. In the news this week, the healthcare industry debates whether the use of telehealth in meeting an outbreak might herald a new standard of care. Plus, how virtual care is being used to fight the ongoing public health crisis of maternal mortality. 

4/23/20, Fierce Healthcare: [Half of physicians now using telehealth as COVID-19 changes practice operations](https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/practices/half-physicians-now-using-telehealth-as-covid-changes-practice-operations)

4/23/20, MedCity News: [Everyone wins if we empower Ob-Gyns with technology](https://medcitynews.com/2020/04/everyone-wins-if-we-empower-ob-gyns-with-technology/)

4/22/20, The Paper Gown: [Get Ready to FaceTime With Your Ob-Gyn](https://thepapergown.zocdoc.com/what-can-you-actually-do-during-an-ob-gyn-video-visit/)

4/21/20, Healthcare Finance News: [COVID-19 may permanently alter the telehealth landscape, from reimbursement to utilization](https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/node/140009)

4/20/20, Babypalooza: [How Babyscripts is fighting to reduce maternal death rates](https://www.babypalooza.com/how-babyscripts-is-fighting-to-reduce-maternal-death-rates/)

4/19/20, Stat News: [Doctors discover telehealth’s silver lining in the Covid-19 crisis](https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/19/telehealth-silver-lining-discovered-covid-19-crisis/)

*Plus, recent research on maternal health:*

AJOG: [Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in pregnant women: A report based on 116 cases](https://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378(20)30462-2/fulltext)

PubMed: [Right-Sizing Prenatal Care to Meet Patients' Needs and Improve Maternity Care Value.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32282594)

New England Journal of Medicine: [Universal Screening for SARS-CoV-2 in Women Admitted for Delivery](https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2009316)

 

 

 

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