Baltimore cuts infant mortality 38% by using data to target at-risk mothers

Baltimore, Maryland slashed its infant mortality rate by 38% over five years by using data to assess risk factors and distribute maternal and infant care more effectively. The city use a data-driven risk assessment system to allocate expensive interventions, like home visits, to the most vulnerable pregnant women. Compiling data has allowed the city's maternal and infant care initiative, B'more for Healthy Babies, to focus its services on the most significant dangers to infants, like sleep-related infant death.