Babyscripts myJourney is a clinically-validated, obstetrics-specific solution that allows OB/GYNs and other maternal health care providers to deliver a new model of prenatal and postpartum care via a mobile app-based platform and remote patient monitoring experiences. It exists to solve the problems generated from the critical shortage of obstetrical providers in the U.S. and to transform the delivery of pregnancy care through the power of technology and remote patient monitoring.
- Patient users download the Babyscripts myJourney digital companion app onto their smartphone, enabling 24/7 access to personalized educational content tailored to each stage of pregnancy up through one year postpartum.Through myJourney’s assessment and survey functionality, users self-report health history, mental risk, and social determinants of health data. All data is communicated back to the healthcare team through a provider-facing dashboard, enabling the appropriate intervention and facilitating better clinical decision-making.
- All users also have access to manual blood pressure tracking in the app, even those who are normotensive or considered low-risk, to support the integration of self monitored blood pressure monitoring into routine prenatal and postpartum care. Patients can input BP data manually or automatically into the myJourney app via a manual or internet-connected cuff. Data is available to the healthcare team through a provider-facing dashboard, and high risk situations are actively communicated to the patient’s healthcare team, enabling recognition of hypertension risk when it occurs and informing any necessary changes to the care plan, including the option to enroll patients onto Babyscripts myJourney Blood Pressure RPM.
Babyscripts myJourney Blood Pressure RPM is specifically designed for high-risk patients and is supported by a care management layer. Patients track their blood pressure readings at home with the support of a dedicated care manager. Readings are recorded via the myJourney app and an internet or cellular-enabled blood pressure cuff, synced with their healthcare provider's system. This integration allows for continuous monitoring and immediate feedback. If a patient's blood pressure reading is outside of the parameters set by their healthcare team, the app alerts the patient, care manager, and the healthcare team, facilitating timely medical intervention.
- Key Components: Babyscripts myJourney Blood Pressure RPM incorporates several key components designed to enhance maternal health outcomes through remote monitoring and patient engagement, including the following:
- Connected blood pressure cuff: The program provides patients with a digital blood pressure monitor that is internet or cellular-enabled, allowing patients to measure their blood pressure at home and automatically transmit the readings to their healthcare providers in real-time.
- Mobile app integration: The Babyscripts myJourney app integrates seamlessly with the blood pressure cuff, allowing users to easily log and track their readings. The app is accessible on both smartphones and tablets.
- Real-time alerts and feedback: The app is programmed to send immediate alerts to patients, care manager, and healthcare providers if any readings fall outside of the parameters set by the healthcare team. By means of a sophisticated exception reporting workflow and the addition of care management support, Babyscripts reduces trigger fatigue, surfacing only actionable data.
- Care management: Patients enrolled onto Babyscripts BP RPM are matched with a care manager, who operates incident to and under the supervision of the healthcare provider to provide education, motivation, and remove any barriers to compliance with daily blood pressure capture.
- Tailored educational content: In addition to general pregnancy and postpartum content, patients enrolled in Babyscripts Blood Pressure RPM receive resources specific to their risk profile.
- Provider dashboard: Healthcare providers have access to a dedicated dashboard where they can monitor their patients' blood pressure readings, track trends over time, and adjust care plans accordingly. This centralized data collection facilitates better patient management and follow-up care.
- Patient engagement and compliance tools: The app includes tools to help patients stay engaged and compliant with their monitoring routines. This includes reminders for taking blood pressure readings, educational materials, and motivational content to encourage adherence. The patient’s care manager communicates regularly to ensure compliance.
- Data security and privacy: The platform complies with all relevant healthcare regulations and standards, including HIPAA, to protect patient information.
- EMR integration: Babyscripts BP RPM integrates into the medical record through several methods, enabling patient onboarding directly in the EMR and automatically filling blood pressure readings into the patient's chart.
Together these components provide a comprehensive solution for managing hypertension in pregnant and postpartum women, significantly improving maternal health outcomes by enabling continuous monitoring and timely medical interventions. The Babyscripts blood pressure RPM model is reimbursable, offering a sustainable service for providers to improve the patient experience and outcomes related to hypertension during pregnancy.
- Babyscripts partnered with GW-MFA and others in a number of research projects, with results published in ACOG’s Green Journal and JMIR, validating the effectiveness of reduced in-person visits for prenatal care, better management of weight and blood pressure complications, improving compliance and adherence to HEDIS measures, and reducing rates of readmission in the postpartum period through remote monitoring.
- Babyscripts' patient-centric solution extends care outside the four walls of the office, making personalized healthcare education, risk-stratified remote monitoring, and real-time virtual triage as readily accessible as the smartphone, responding to mothers’ needs for accessibility and convenience. Babyscripts has deeply engaged this patient population, with 92% of users saying that they would recommend the solution to their friends.
- Babyscripts' vision for improving care has always been driven and amplified by clinicians: strategic partners like George Washington Medical Faculty Associates, Cone Health System, and Advocate Aurora Healthcare, among others. These partnerships are essential to Babyscripts' project of creating solutions for patients with and for clinicians.
- Babyscripts gives the healthcare team and payer the ability to monitor both behavioral compliance and physical vital signs between visits, to identify adverse trends in real-time and lower the cost of care. The ability to integrate Babyscripts into the EMR and clinical workflow is one of its most important value-adds, allowing providers to offer comprehensive virtual care and payers and deliver “next generation” care coordination.
