Working in the emergency department as a nurse practitioner for the past decade...
Working in the emergency department as a nurse practitioner for the past decade, making the best decision for every patient has always been a top priority—it's essential to providing high-quality, evidence-based care. I have had firsthand experience caring for our pregnant population in crisis. I’m there when they need answers or treatment for infections, reassurance that their baby is ok, or validation that they’re doing everything they can to support their body during pregnancy. I have also seen the consequences of what happens when a provider hasn’t been able to apply an intervention early enough, and a challenging pregnancy becomes life-threatening. Technology like the predictive models in the Delfina Care platform will revolutionize how providers like me do our jobs.
In my time working in the ER, I’ve seen too many women miscarry. After looking into the eyes of yet another patient who had hoped and dreamed for a baby, only to have their pregnancy come to an untimely end, I realized that our birthing patients aren’t being set up for optimal pregnancy outcomes. When I first learned about Delfina Care from my friend Jess Barra who now leads Delfina’s product operations, it made me hopeful. Imagine if we could optimize a patient’s health status and assign appropriate risk scores to intervene early. Then, we can work as providers to reduce these horrific experiences.
Delfina’s technological innovation would be a huge benefit to the incredibly busy providers that serve our communities. When I’m working in a packed ER, I have to address each patient’s concern, order the appropriate tests, interpret test results continually throughout the shift, and coordinate care with specialty teams that are called in based on our decisions. Myself and other providers are navigating through each of these decisions countless times a day, sometimes making multiple decisions at once.
Of course, there are tools that I use to inform my decisions, but those tools are still heavily reliant on data synthesis by the provider. I can look at the data, but I have to pull the right data and ask the right questions. I need to interpret the data I pull correctly, decide on a recommendation, and collaborate with my team to apply that recommendation. With digital health advancements modernizing our processes in other areas, I am optimistic that our decision making fatigue could also be improved by technology. I want to serve my patients the best I can, and every provider I know would do everything that they can for their patients—but these individual decisions have a huge influence over care in the moment, and have the potential to further widen gaps and create adverse outcomes.
The ability to access accurate, evidence-based recommendations individually tailored to my patients will reduce the decision-making fatigue that I and so many other providers experience. Using data from multiple sources, Delfina Care’s models help identify which patients could benefit from an early intervention. This wealth of data summarized for me in an efficient user interface would have made my job so much easier. The Delfina Care platform empowers providers like me to make timely, impactful interventions to optimize maternal health outcomes.
Personally, I’m so fortunate to be surrounded by my friends and family members who are mothers, and many sweet little ones. But their journeys haven’t always been fairytale birth stories. Some of their babies were born habitually premature, enduring NICU stays when they planned to return home with the rest of the family. I’ve witnessed the lowest moment in the life of someone close to me: a late term stillborn. Since I joined Delfina I’ve talked to my friends and family about our pregnancy care platform, and their excitement is palpable. I know that if and when they have another baby, Delfina will be their go-to pregnancy solution. Whether at home or at the hospital, being able to equitably address every mom and ensure they are being supported physically, emotionally, and holistically is a privilege—for me, and for every provider involved in maternal healthcare.
Working in the emergency department as a nurse practitioner for the past decade...
Working in the emergency department as a nurse practitioner for the past decade, making the best decision for every patient has always been a top priority—it's essential to providing high-quality, evidence-based care. I have had firsthand experience caring for our pregnant population in crisis. I’m there when they need answers or treatment for infections, reassurance that their baby is ok, or validation that they’re doing everything they can to support their body during pregnancy. I have also seen the consequences of what happens when a provider hasn’t been able to apply an intervention early enough, and a challenging pregnancy becomes life-threatening. Technology like the predictive models in the Delfina Care platform will revolutionize how providers like me do our jobs.
In my time working in the ER, I’ve seen too many women miscarry. After looking into the eyes of yet another patient who had hoped and dreamed for a baby, only to have their pregnancy come to an untimely end, I realized that our birthing patients aren’t being set up for optimal pregnancy outcomes. When I first learned about Delfina Care from my friend Jess Barra who now leads Delfina’s product operations, it made me hopeful. Imagine if we could optimize a patient’s health status and assign appropriate risk scores to intervene early. Then, we can work as providers to reduce these horrific experiences.
Delfina’s technological innovation would be a huge benefit to the incredibly busy providers that serve our communities. When I’m working in a packed ER, I have to address each patient’s concern, order the appropriate tests, interpret test results continually throughout the shift, and coordinate care with specialty teams that are called in based on our decisions. Myself and other providers are navigating through each of these decisions countless times a day, sometimes making multiple decisions at once.
Of course, there are tools that I use to inform my decisions, but those tools are still heavily reliant on data synthesis by the provider. I can look at the data, but I have to pull the right data and ask the right questions. I need to interpret the data I pull correctly, decide on a recommendation, and collaborate with my team to apply that recommendation. With digital health advancements modernizing our processes in other areas, I am optimistic that our decision making fatigue could also be improved by technology. I want to serve my patients the best I can, and every provider I know would do everything that they can for their patients—but these individual decisions have a huge influence over care in the moment, and have the potential to further widen gaps and create adverse outcomes.
The ability to access accurate, evidence-based recommendations individually tailored to my patients will reduce the decision-making fatigue that I and so many other providers experience. Using data from multiple sources, Delfina Care’s models help identify which patients could benefit from an early intervention. This wealth of data summarized for me in an efficient user interface would have made my job so much easier. The Delfina Care platform empowers providers like me to make timely, impactful interventions to optimize maternal health outcomes.
Personally, I’m so fortunate to be surrounded by my friends and family members who are mothers, and many sweet little ones. But their journeys haven’t always been fairytale birth stories. Some of their babies were born habitually premature, enduring NICU stays when they planned to return home with the rest of the family. I’ve witnessed the lowest moment in the life of someone close to me: a late term stillborn. Since I joined Delfina I’ve talked to my friends and family about our pregnancy care platform, and their excitement is palpable. I know that if and when they have another baby, Delfina will be their go-to pregnancy solution. Whether at home or at the hospital, being able to equitably address every mom and ensure they are being supported physically, emotionally, and holistically is a privilege—for me, and for every provider involved in maternal healthcare.
Working in the emergency department as a nurse practitioner for the past decade...
Working in the emergency department as a nurse practitioner for the past decade, making the best decision for every patient has always been a top priority—it's essential to providing high-quality, evidence-based care. I have had firsthand experience caring for our pregnant population in crisis. I’m there when they need answers or treatment for infections, reassurance that their baby is ok, or validation that they’re doing everything they can to support their body during pregnancy. I have also seen the consequences of what happens when a provider hasn’t been able to apply an intervention early enough, and a challenging pregnancy becomes life-threatening. Technology like the predictive models in the Delfina Care platform will revolutionize how providers like me do our jobs.
In my time working in the ER, I’ve seen too many women miscarry. After looking into the eyes of yet another patient who had hoped and dreamed for a baby, only to have their pregnancy come to an untimely end, I realized that our birthing patients aren’t being set up for optimal pregnancy outcomes. When I first learned about Delfina Care from my friend Jess Barra who now leads Delfina’s product operations, it made me hopeful. Imagine if we could optimize a patient’s health status and assign appropriate risk scores to intervene early. Then, we can work as providers to reduce these horrific experiences.
Delfina’s technological innovation would be a huge benefit to the incredibly busy providers that serve our communities. When I’m working in a packed ER, I have to address each patient’s concern, order the appropriate tests, interpret test results continually throughout the shift, and coordinate care with specialty teams that are called in based on our decisions. Myself and other providers are navigating through each of these decisions countless times a day, sometimes making multiple decisions at once.
Of course, there are tools that I use to inform my decisions, but those tools are still heavily reliant on data synthesis by the provider. I can look at the data, but I have to pull the right data and ask the right questions. I need to interpret the data I pull correctly, decide on a recommendation, and collaborate with my team to apply that recommendation. With digital health advancements modernizing our processes in other areas, I am optimistic that our decision making fatigue could also be improved by technology. I want to serve my patients the best I can, and every provider I know would do everything that they can for their patients—but these individual decisions have a huge influence over care in the moment, and have the potential to further widen gaps and create adverse outcomes.
The ability to access accurate, evidence-based recommendations individually tailored to my patients will reduce the decision-making fatigue that I and so many other providers experience. Using data from multiple sources, Delfina Care’s models help identify which patients could benefit from an early intervention. This wealth of data summarized for me in an efficient user interface would have made my job so much easier. The Delfina Care platform empowers providers like me to make timely, impactful interventions to optimize maternal health outcomes.
Personally, I’m so fortunate to be surrounded by my friends and family members who are mothers, and many sweet little ones. But their journeys haven’t always been fairytale birth stories. Some of their babies were born habitually premature, enduring NICU stays when they planned to return home with the rest of the family. I’ve witnessed the lowest moment in the life of someone close to me: a late term stillborn. Since I joined Delfina I’ve talked to my friends and family about our pregnancy care platform, and their excitement is palpable. I know that if and when they have another baby, Delfina will be their go-to pregnancy solution. Whether at home or at the hospital, being able to equitably address every mom and ensure they are being supported physically, emotionally, and holistically is a privilege—for me, and for every provider involved in maternal healthcare.
Working in the emergency department as a nurse practitioner for the past decade...
Working in the emergency department as a nurse practitioner for the past decade, making the best decision for every patient has always been a top priority—it's essential to providing high-quality, evidence-based care. I have had firsthand experience caring for our pregnant population in crisis. I’m there when they need answers or treatment for infections, reassurance that their baby is ok, or validation that they’re doing everything they can to support their body during pregnancy. I have also seen the consequences of what happens when a provider hasn’t been able to apply an intervention early enough, and a challenging pregnancy becomes life-threatening. Technology like the predictive models in the Delfina Care platform will revolutionize how providers like me do our jobs.
In my time working in the ER, I’ve seen too many women miscarry. After looking into the eyes of yet another patient who had hoped and dreamed for a baby, only to have their pregnancy come to an untimely end, I realized that our birthing patients aren’t being set up for optimal pregnancy outcomes. When I first learned about Delfina Care from my friend Jess Barra who now leads Delfina’s product operations, it made me hopeful. Imagine if we could optimize a patient’s health status and assign appropriate risk scores to intervene early. Then, we can work as providers to reduce these horrific experiences.
Delfina’s technological innovation would be a huge benefit to the incredibly busy providers that serve our communities. When I’m working in a packed ER, I have to address each patient’s concern, order the appropriate tests, interpret test results continually throughout the shift, and coordinate care with specialty teams that are called in based on our decisions. Myself and other providers are navigating through each of these decisions countless times a day, sometimes making multiple decisions at once.
Of course, there are tools that I use to inform my decisions, but those tools are still heavily reliant on data synthesis by the provider. I can look at the data, but I have to pull the right data and ask the right questions. I need to interpret the data I pull correctly, decide on a recommendation, and collaborate with my team to apply that recommendation. With digital health advancements modernizing our processes in other areas, I am optimistic that our decision making fatigue could also be improved by technology. I want to serve my patients the best I can, and every provider I know would do everything that they can for their patients—but these individual decisions have a huge influence over care in the moment, and have the potential to further widen gaps and create adverse outcomes.
The ability to access accurate, evidence-based recommendations individually tailored to my patients will reduce the decision-making fatigue that I and so many other providers experience. Using data from multiple sources, Delfina Care’s models help identify which patients could benefit from an early intervention. This wealth of data summarized for me in an efficient user interface would have made my job so much easier. The Delfina Care platform empowers providers like me to make timely, impactful interventions to optimize maternal health outcomes.
Personally, I’m so fortunate to be surrounded by my friends and family members who are mothers, and many sweet little ones. But their journeys haven’t always been fairytale birth stories. Some of their babies were born habitually premature, enduring NICU stays when they planned to return home with the rest of the family. I’ve witnessed the lowest moment in the life of someone close to me: a late term stillborn. Since I joined Delfina I’ve talked to my friends and family about our pregnancy care platform, and their excitement is palpable. I know that if and when they have another baby, Delfina will be their go-to pregnancy solution. Whether at home or at the hospital, being able to equitably address every mom and ensure they are being supported physically, emotionally, and holistically is a privilege—for me, and for every provider involved in maternal healthcare.
Working in the emergency department as a nurse practitioner for the past decade...
Working in the emergency department as a nurse practitioner for the past decade, making the best decision for every patient has always been a top priority—it's essential to providing high-quality, evidence-based care. I have had firsthand experience caring for our pregnant population in crisis. I’m there when they need answers or treatment for infections, reassurance that their baby is ok, or validation that they’re doing everything they can to support their body during pregnancy. I have also seen the consequences of what happens when a provider hasn’t been able to apply an intervention early enough, and a challenging pregnancy becomes life-threatening. Technology like the predictive models in the Delfina Care platform will revolutionize how providers like me do our jobs.
In my time working in the ER, I’ve seen too many women miscarry. After looking into the eyes of yet another patient who had hoped and dreamed for a baby, only to have their pregnancy come to an untimely end, I realized that our birthing patients aren’t being set up for optimal pregnancy outcomes. When I first learned about Delfina Care from my friend Jess Barra who now leads Delfina’s product operations, it made me hopeful. Imagine if we could optimize a patient’s health status and assign appropriate risk scores to intervene early. Then, we can work as providers to reduce these horrific experiences.
Delfina’s technological innovation would be a huge benefit to the incredibly busy providers that serve our communities. When I’m working in a packed ER, I have to address each patient’s concern, order the appropriate tests, interpret test results continually throughout the shift, and coordinate care with specialty teams that are called in based on our decisions. Myself and other providers are navigating through each of these decisions countless times a day, sometimes making multiple decisions at once.
Of course, there are tools that I use to inform my decisions, but those tools are still heavily reliant on data synthesis by the provider. I can look at the data, but I have to pull the right data and ask the right questions. I need to interpret the data I pull correctly, decide on a recommendation, and collaborate with my team to apply that recommendation. With digital health advancements modernizing our processes in other areas, I am optimistic that our decision making fatigue could also be improved by technology. I want to serve my patients the best I can, and every provider I know would do everything that they can for their patients—but these individual decisions have a huge influence over care in the moment, and have the potential to further widen gaps and create adverse outcomes.
The ability to access accurate, evidence-based recommendations individually tailored to my patients will reduce the decision-making fatigue that I and so many other providers experience. Using data from multiple sources, Delfina Care’s models help identify which patients could benefit from an early intervention. This wealth of data summarized for me in an efficient user interface would have made my job so much easier. The Delfina Care platform empowers providers like me to make timely, impactful interventions to optimize maternal health outcomes.
Personally, I’m so fortunate to be surrounded by my friends and family members who are mothers, and many sweet little ones. But their journeys haven’t always been fairytale birth stories. Some of their babies were born habitually premature, enduring NICU stays when they planned to return home with the rest of the family. I’ve witnessed the lowest moment in the life of someone close to me: a late term stillborn. Since I joined Delfina I’ve talked to my friends and family about our pregnancy care platform, and their excitement is palpable. I know that if and when they have another baby, Delfina will be their go-to pregnancy solution. Whether at home or at the hospital, being able to equitably address every mom and ensure they are being supported physically, emotionally, and holistically is a privilege—for me, and for every provider involved in maternal healthcare.
Working in the emergency department as a nurse practitioner for the past decade...
