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Babyscripts for FQHCs
FQHCs (Federally Qualified Health Centers) provide a crucial safety net for underserved and vulnerable maternity populations. Clinics and sites are typically located in communities facing socioeconomic barriers such as poverty, limited English proficiency, and low health literacy; with high rates of minority patients.
Despite their critical role in population health, FQHCs face many challenges to care delivery. Babyscripts offers FQHCs the opportunity to address these challenges:
empowering patients
With 24/7 access to personalized health information and support
real-time monitorinG
To help manage conditions like preeclampsia
remote data capture
To ensure continuous care for those who might experience gaps due to missed appointments or systemic inequities
Featured Webinar
Webinar: Maternal Digital Health at FQHCs
Babyscripts and Variety Care, an Oklahoma-based FQHC, discuss the strategies, challenges, and opportunities in maternal digital health at federally qualified health centers; including engaging a diverse patient population and driving enrollment across sites.
Challenges & Opportunities
Patient Access & Demand
Meeting the high demand for healthcare services in underserved communities can be challenging. FQHCs may struggle to accommodate the volume of patients seeking care.
Babyscripts reduces the need for physical touch points
Through our fully virtual program that supports a patient's care plan
Education, weight management tools, assessments, information around available benefits and resources, blood pressure monitoring and behavioral and social risk assessments are available to the patient at their convenience through a mobile application and remote patient monitoring tools. With automation and remote monitoring through Babyscripts, some customers have safely implemented reduced in-person visit schedules for low risk patients to manage patient volume and meet increased need.
Care Coordination & Integration
Coordinating care across different providers and services can be challenging, especially when patients have complex healthcare needs that require collaboration among various healthcare professionals.
Babyscripts addresses the problems of care fragmentation with a patient-centric risk identification model
that integrates the diverse members of the care team
Babyscripts enables a provider of care to identify risk, and also to surface that risk to the appropriate member of the care team through its digital pathway. Babyscripts also promotes standardization across clinics and providers, ensuring that the patient is receiving consistent care.
Social Determinants of Health
FQHCs often serve populations with higher rates of poverty and other social determinants of health. Addressing these factors, such as housing instability, food insecurity, and lack of transportation, is essential for holistic healthcare.
Babyscripts provides SDoH checklists and assessments through the mobile app
to engage patients in their care and conveniently identify and manage risk
Based on patient responses, Babyscripts dynamically guides the patient on a care pathway tailored to their need and surfaces resources and benefits available to them through their care provider or health plan.
Cultural Competency & Language Barriers
FQHCs often serve diverse populations with varying cultural backgrounds and languages. Providing culturally competent care and overcoming language barriers can be crucial for effective healthcare delivery.
Babyscripts provides digital accessible content
In English and SPanish at a simplified reading level
It is accessible to those with low health literacy, culturally competent and ADA-compliant to address individual barriers to care. Audio and visual supplementary aids help address issues of health literacy, which represents one of the greatest barriers to access for underserved populations, and close attention is paid to anything that might present a barrier to understanding, such as use of colloquial language or non-accessible color palettes.
Financial Sustainability
FQHCs often rely on a combination of federal grants, Medicaid, and other funding sources. Securing and maintaining adequate funding can be a constant challenge.
Babyscripts works with FQHC customers to determine the best funding opportunity
To create a sustainable financial plan for the future
Whether it be return on investment modeling, grant support, or accessing Medicaid partnerships, Babyscripts supports FQHCs in finding the best path to fund these critical tools for pregnant and postpartum patients.
Impact & Expertise
In an RCT published in a special equity edition of ACOG’s Green Journal, Black patients logged BP at rates 30 points lower than White patients in-office. When BP was measured at home through Babyscripts, rates of ascertainment for both groups jumped to nearly 95%, eliminating the racial gap. This was a primarily Medicaid population.
Babyscripts users were more than twice as likely to attend a postpartum visit within the first 30 days and nearly 40% more likely to attend one within 60 days.
Care coordination through Babyscripts improved attendance at prenatal care visits and provided a reliable and efficient system that was successfully implemented within an underserved, urban obstetrical population.
Virtual Care Resource Center
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To improve maternal health outcomes, we need collaborative care
Collaborate care is the solution to health care silos that can lead to conflicting diagnoses and redundant processes and lose the patient in the transition.
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Ready to learn more about Babyscripts?
Solve for the challenges facing FQHCs in maternal health by increasing patient access to care and care coordination, and addressing cultural competency and social determinants of health. Schedule a demo to learn more about how Babyscripts works with FQHCs.