Solventum™ Severe Maternal Morbidity (SMM) Classification System

This product was previously 3M™ Severe Maternal Morbidity

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A better way to drive improvements in maternal care.

According to the Commonwealth Fund, the U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate of high income nations, and the majority of these deaths likely could have been prevented. Many more women experience serious complications during pregnancy, delivery or postpartum.

Complications mean a poor experience for the mother, a possible adverse impact on the infant and future risk to both. Births with complications are also more expensive than deliveries without complications, even before factoring in any potential mid-or long-term issues. Understanding severe maternal morbidity (SMM) is foundational for maternal quality improvement programs.

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Scope of issue for payers and providers:

Providers need to create quality programs for maternal morbidity that are efficient, effective and equitable

Serious racial health inequities exist in maternal outcomes

Effective interventions rely on the ability to risk adjust outcomes for fair comparisons

Multiple care settings and postpartum complications make it challenging to track outcomes

Solventum methodologies highlight complications to address severe maternal morbidity

Solventum SMM helps organizations identify and trend risk-adjusted maternal outcomes. It provides an approach to review facility or network care pathway views of all preventable complications, not just the SMM complications as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These insights support the development of maternal morbidity action plans across sites of maternal care and throughout the course of pregnancy and the postpartum period. This solution enables performance monitoring by facility, health plan or provider group and allows for identification of those sites of care for performance learning or improvement.

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An approach to assess quality and safety among maternity and delivery. The data enhancements and views in this package highlight areas for improvement.

Payers that want to improve quality for maternity or pay in bundles.
Providers who are a part of a value-based care (VBC) program and want improve maternal health. OB/GYN groups and facilities that want to improve quality or become a center of excellence.

An understanding for the volume of the complications as well as which procedures, service lines or clinicians are responsible for them
The knowledge of using the higher than benchmark complication rates to trigger root cause analysis to reduce specific potentially preventable complications and decrease costs
The awareness to identify outliers with higher or lower quality outcomes for practice agreements, discussion or remediation
The ability to visualize which procedures result in an emergency department visit or unscheduled inpatient admissions

Use the SMM quick start guide to help accelerate analytical projects and identification of opportunities Solventum experts are available to help highlight areas of concern and assist groups with plans to decrease ambulatory potentially preventable complications

Solventum methodologies are a longitudinal claims-based methodology

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Solventum SMM fact sheet

Explore how Solventum SMM can help payers and healthcare organizations identify and trend risk-adjusted maternal outcomes and use these data-driven insights to inform evidence-based practices to improve outcomes.

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January 19, 2024 • 7PM UTC

Comprehensive data documentation holds the power to transform maternal mortality

Maternal mortality and morbidity are multifactorial and cannot be solved overnight. Accurate and complete data documentation can play a significant role in helping course-correct and address the maternal mortality and morbidity crisis.

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May 11, 2023 • 7PM UTC

Evidence-based approaches to improving maternal health outcomes

What factors are contributing to poor maternal health outcomes and how can we reverse this negative trend? In this Inside Angle episode, Dr. Steven Calvin, board-certified OB-GYN and maternal-fetal medicine physician discusses ways maternal outcomes could be improved.

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June 05, 2023 • 7PM UTC

The journey to improving maternal health outcomes

Maternal healthcare is primary healthcare and it is critical that we reduce preventable maternal morbidity and inequities. Flora Coan shares her birth story in West Africa and underlines the importance of employing solutions to help organizations identify and trend risk-adjusted maternal outcomes.

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