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Last week, the New York Times, Washington Post, and Consumer Reports were buzzing about something most Private Practice users have been doing all along…sharing your charts with your clients. The source of all the excitement are the results of a year long study that surprised even the most seasoned healthcare veterens. The OpenNotes study included …

Recently, we received an intriguing phone call. It was from a pregnant woman from Florida who was looking for a midwife, specifically one that uses Private Practice. She was currently receiving routine prenatal care, but something significant happened that made her explore other options. She was visiting a pregnant friend in California who had just …

While government and private initiatives are now encouraging a patient centered system of care delivery that includes electronic access to their health records, midwives know the key to a healthy system lies in a woman’s perceptions of her options, rights and inherent power.  By sharing not just the data in the chart but a summary …

“Midwifery is Catching” I love this one because it is subtle and significant. It evokes the growing tide of interest in midwifery care, and also reminds us that midwives don’t take credit for “delivering” babies, their clients do. For midwives, the phrase symbolizes our best “butter births”. The ones where the most complicated skills you …

Coordination between care providers is recognized as an important component of high quality maternity care [1]. However, most maternity care providers in the US work in a climate that does not support genuine and effective communication[2]. Providers face multiple obstacles to collaboration, from concerns about liability to cultural influences. Despite the convergence of mandates for …