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DPH advisory subcommittee begins work on maternal-care report card, debates dashboard format and data gaps
Summary
The Department of Public Health convened an advisory subcommittee to design a statutory maternal-care report card. Members debated whether the public deliverable should be a static report card or an interactive dashboard, stressed centering patient voices, and tasked members with reviewing data sources and legal/privacy limits before the next meeting.
The Department of Public Health’s advisory subcommittee met to begin designing a legislatively required maternity-care report card and to decide how the public product should look and function. Dr. Linda Berry, chair of the subcommittee and a professor at Yukon School of Medicine, opened the meeting and asked members to help define the committee’s scope and two expected deliverables.
A DPH representative described the statute that created the committee and the work plan, saying the group must establish metrics, measures and methodology to inform an annual public product. The representative noted the statutory schedule: an initial submission tied to a February 1 deadline, a July 1 framework milestone and a Jan. 1 deadline for a public-facing report or dashboard, with updates every three years.
The meeting’s central debate was whether the statute’s "report card" should be interpreted as a static public snapshot or as a more resource-intensive interactive dashboard. "I perceive a dashboard as something dynamic that you can query," Dr. Linda…
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