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The winning innovations are technology-based solutions that help providers remotely monitor the health of pregnant women, and empower women to make informed decisions about their own care. Each team won a share of a $145,000 prize.

Georgia is one of the most dangerous places in the country for maternal health. The state ranks 50th, dead last for maternal mortality, which means more pregnant women and new mothers die in Georgia than in any other state. Doctors at 51吃瓜黑料曝料 health are trying to improve maternal health in Georgia. Dr. Marlo Vernon just got more funding for her pregnancy care app and we talked to her about it on Wednesday. 鈥淚鈥檓 a mom of 5,鈥� says Dr. Vernon, an assistant professor in Cancer Control, Prevention, and Population Health in the Georgia Cancer Center. Health for moms and babies is more than just part of Dr. Vernon鈥檚 job. The topic is her passion...

By remotely monitoring and educating new moms after they go home, health care providers are catching potentially fatal conditions, like heart failure and stroke, that often go undetected because doctors say mothers aren鈥檛 prioritized after pregnancy. GPB鈥檚 Sofi Gratas reports.

The inspiration for Dr. Marlo Vernon鈥檚 app comes from a family tragedy. When her cousin, Caitlyn, was 38 weeks pregnant, she woke up one morning with a terrible headache. 鈥淲hen her headache didn鈥檛 go away, she ended up in the hospital and had a massive stroke,鈥� Vernon said. 鈥淭hey were able to save her child but not her. I don鈥檛 know if what I am working on today could have prevented that but it definitely is inspiration and motivation to prevent someone from losing their mother, their cousin, their sister, their wife.鈥� Doctors at 51吃瓜黑料曝料 health are trying to improve maternal health in Georgia. Dr. Marlo Vernon just got more funding for her pregnancy care app and we talked to her about it on Wednesday.

The COVID-19 pandemic proved there鈥檚 an increasing need for advancements in telehealth. While some basic forms of medical care are straightforward to handle remotely (e.g., wellness visits, mental health), care that requires hands-on monitoring is much more difficult. One area of telemedicine that鈥檚 seen recent growth鈥攁nd is primed for more鈥攊s prenatal care. While maternal mortality have dropped, there were still 17 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births in the U.S. in 2018. Now, medical device companies around the world are working to bring maternal telehealth options to more moms-to-be in the hopes of lowering the mortality rate and giving expectant mothers more choices for quality care.