AHA, Epic release toolkit to improve maternal health
The American Hospital Association and health technology firm Epic are to help hospitals adopt tools supporting the early detection and treatment of postpartum hemorrhage, a leading cause of maternal mortality. The organizations released a that includes dynamic risk assessments, clinical decision support and treatment guidance embedded in the electronic medical record. With the proper permissions from applicable content providers, users of any electronic medical record should be able to implement a similar set of tools. The AHA and Epic will help hospitals to implement the tools with programming, resources and a space to learn from each other and engage with hospitals already seeing successful outcomes with items included in the toolkit. (AHA , 7/24/25)