Medical health insurance firm MotivHealth introduced it’s partnering with Utah-based telehealth firm AZOVA to supply its members with Delivery Doula Help Memberships.
AZOVA is a digital well being platform that provides companies in major care, pediatrics, behavioral well being, girls’s well being, dermatology, males’s well being, vaccinations and testing companies.
Concerning its girls’s well being companies, the corporate companions with numerous healthcare specialists and, via its partnership with MotivHealth, will join the well being insurer’s sufferers with doulas as a part of their membership.
“We’re thrilled to accomplice with MotivHealth in bringing this distinctive program to life. By leveraging expertise to attach moms with professional doulas, we intention to empower girls all through their birthing journey,” Dr. Cheryl Lee Eberting, CEO and founding father of AZOVA Well being, mentioned in a press release.
THE LARGER TREND
In a examine printed in Cureus, doula steerage was proven to mitigate well being disparities and was related to optimistic supply outcomes, resembling decreased untimely deliveries, cesarean sections, and brief labor lengths. Doula assist was additionally proven to enhance breastfeeding success in low-income girls.
Different tech-enabled firms targeted on maternal well being embody meals supply firm FarmboxRx, which launched a Maternal Well being Program to supply entry to meals and vitamin training to at-risk pregnant girls throughout and after being pregnant, and Mae Well being, a digital well being platform that provides being pregnant and postpartum assist for Black expectant moms.
