Association of proprietary smartphone application engagement and attendance at postpartum visit

BACKGROUND: We hypothesized that patients who engaged with a proprietary smartphone application designed to improve maternal care would be more likely to attend a comprehensive postpartum visit. METHODS: After receiving institutional review board approval and a waiver of informed consent, study investigators collected data on patients who delivered live-born infants at Baylor Scott & White hospitals located in College Station, Round Rock, and Temple, Texas, from September 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025. We performed a bivariate analysis between patients who did and did not engage with the proprietary smartphone application and a multivariate logistic regression with variables of interest to determine which characteristics were independently associated with attendance at a comprehensive postpartum visit. DISCUSSION: Patients who engaged with a proprietary smartphone application at least once were 58% more likely to have attended a comprehensive postpartum visit within 12 weeks of delivery.