--- title: The UbiBlog | Patient Engagement and Value-Based Care Analysis | infant mortality description: infant mortality | UbiCare provides total engagement solutions enabling hospitals to be at the forefront of patient-centered innovation and value-based care through targeted education, mobile connections and real time data. --- [![logo](https://blog.ubicare.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Ubicare_Image/logo.png?width=250&name=logo.png)](http://www.ubicare.com/) - [Home](https://ubicare.com/) - [About](https://ubicare.com/about-ubicare/) - [Blog](https://blog.ubicare.com/) - [Client Login](https://mobile.ubicare.com) - [Contact Us](https://ubicare.com/contact/) ## [Why MIMI Is a Game-Changer for Maternal & Infant Mortality](https://blog.ubicare.com/why-mimi-is-a-game-changer-for-maternal-and-infant-mortality) Posted by [Debra Zalvan](https://blog.ubicare.com/author/debra-zalvan) on Dec 5, 2019 7:30:00 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.ubicare.com/hubfs/MIMI-Announcement2-blog_social_badge.png)](https://blog.ubicare.com/why-mimi-is-a-game-changer-for-maternal-and-infant-mortality) When we [introduced MIMI](https://blog.ubicare.com/re-thinking-the-challenge-of-maternal-and-infant-mortality), UbiCare’s national public health initiative to help reduce preventable maternal and infant mortality, we noted that U.S. infant mortality rates are decreasing, though at a slower rate than in comparable countries. Unlike infant mortality, however, maternal mortality in the U.S. has steadily ***increased*** over the last 25 years. [Read More](https://blog.ubicare.com/why-mimi-is-a-game-changer-for-maternal-and-infant-mortality) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.ubicare.com/why-mimi-is-a-game-changer-for-maternal-and-infant-mortality#comments-listing) Topics: [UbiCare](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/ubicare), [SmarteXp](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/smartexp), [early childhood](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/early-childhood), [patient education](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/patient-education), [pregnancy](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/pregnancy), [infant mortality](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/infant-mortality), [maternal mortality](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/maternal-mortality), [MIMI](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/mimi) ## [Re-thinking the Challenge of Maternal & Infant Mortality](https://blog.ubicare.com/re-thinking-the-challenge-of-maternal-and-infant-mortality) Posted by [Debra Zalvan](https://blog.ubicare.com/author/debra-zalvan) on Nov 12, 2019 7:30:00 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.ubicare.com/hubfs/MIMI-Announcement-blog_social_badge.png)](https://blog.ubicare.com/re-thinking-the-challenge-of-maternal-and-infant-mortality) Maternal and infant mortality rates in the U.S. are too high for a country that claims to have the best healthcare in the world. Recent data shows that even as the numbers slowly improve, the pace of improvement continues to lag behind that of comparable countries. And in at least 10 states, where this mortality is significantly higher than the national average, this is a crisis. Most troubling for all of us is that some of these deaths are preventable. Is your hospital or practice grappling with this issue? Are you frustrated with the results of your efforts to address the problem? 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