Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Interactive Dashboard (3MID)

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MITRE researchers are addressing the critical challenge of reducing the U.S. rate of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity through a microsimulation tool that can help government leaders make more informed decisions. 

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MITRE researchers are addressing the critical challenge of reducing the U.S. rate of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity through a microsimulation tool that can help government leaders make more informed decisions. The United States is the only country in the developed world to see an increase in women dying from pregnancy-related complications—the rate has doubled in the past 20 years. And the number of deaths is three to four times higher for non-Hispanic Black women.

MITRE’s Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Interactive Dashboard (3MID) provides a virtual environment for researchers to test interventions designed to reduce maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity rates based on local factors, including state-specific demographics and resources. The 3MID will “predict” the outcome of various approaches based on data analysis and theoretical assumptions.

For example, a 3MID user can analyze how budgets, social determinants of health, and the application of quality improvement toolkits could address the leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths and severe maternal morbidities. [Note: The toolkits were designed by the California Maternal Quality Care Collaboration (CMQCC) to address conditions such as obstetric hemorrhage and preeclampsia.]

Application

A user can select any state, locality (e.g., counties, parishes), and hospitals as parameters to deploy during a simulation run. The tool has broad application across the federal, state, and local governments to inform data-driven decision-making to reduce U.S. maternal mortality and morbidity rates. 3MID could also be leveraged by a non-profit agency within the maternal and child health space. Using the tool, the user could explore the following questions:

  • What is the predicted number of pregnancies for non-Hispanic Black women, non-Hispanic white, and Hispanic women within a state?
  • What is the predicted number of maternal deaths for non-Hispanic Black women, non-Hispanic white, and Hispanic women within a state?
  • How many maternal deaths could have been prevented by the application of maternal care programming within a state?
  • What would be the cost for hospitals (e.g., urban teaching, urban non-teaching, rural) to implement a certain program?
  • How would the results change based on the selection on different levers within the tool?

Value Proposition

Decreasing the U.S. maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity rate will improve the health and safety of thousands of citizens. Maternal health is in need of better data collection, analysis, and interpretation tools.

Benefits

3MID collates various data sources from across the U.S. to provide a holistic view of maternal health.  The 3MID simulated environment allows users to test interventions designed to reduce maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity within a geographic region. Data includes information on the local factors, including state-specific demographics and resources. By taking this data-driven approach, public health researchers and policy makers can create interventions that are targeted to their region’s leading causes of pregnancy-related death. 

Additional Information

Inventors:

  • Abdul Sheikhnureldin (lead developer)
  • Rachel Mayer (PI)
  • Alison Dingwall (Co-PI)

Technology Readiness Level:

TRL 3

Supporting Technical Paper:

Saving Women’s Lives: A Data-Driven Approach to Reduce Maternal Mortality

Demo Video:

Learn how 3MID aims to serve as a tool for policymakers to prioritize resource allocation and thus optimize the impact of scarce resources on maternal mortality and health disparities.

In the developing world where pregnancy and childbirth can be risky, maternal

mortality rates are dropping—that's the good news—the bad news is closer to home.

Did you know that the United States is the only country in the developed world

to witness an increase in pregnancy related deaths?

It's natural for mothers and society to focus on baby's health; meanwhile nearly 1,000 expectant mothers

in this country die each year because of pregnancy-related conditions that are

preventable with timely and proper intervention.

This issue hits non-Hispanic Black women the hardest. For every Caucasian woman who dies from

pregnancy related conditions, between three and four Black women will also die.

We believe that saving these expectant mothers could start by searching the data.

So, MITRE researchers have developed a tool to assess the impact of funding

levels, healthcare access, as well as different toolkits to examine the impact

of these interventions on expectant mothers. We call this tool the

MITRE Maternal Mortality Interactive Dashboard.

A pilot study of the Maternal Mortality

Interactive Dashboard relies on detailed data from eight states that track

maternal mortality by race.

These datasets applied to the dashboard can

help identify quantitative correlations among demographic factors like race, age

socioeconomic status and maternal mortality.

For example, MITRE's maternal

mortality interactive dashboard forecasts the impact of efforts to

target common complications during pregnancy, including uncontrolled

bleeding, high blood pressure or blood clots.

Given a simulated population and

an interactive dashboard, these correlations help determine the

likelihood or risk of a woman dying as a result of pregnancy.

The MITRE Maternal Mortality Interactive Dashboard can help policymakers determine what

interventions might reduce the likelihood of maternal mortality.

And, it can help new mothers and their children get on with the business of living.

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