RT Book, Section A1 Lowery, Curtis A2 Rheuban, Karen Schulder A2 Krupinski, Elizabeth A. SR Print(0) ID 1153060115 T1 High-Risk Obstetrics and Telehealth T2 Understanding Telehealth YR 1 FD 1 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781259837401 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1153060115 RD 2024/03/28 AB High-risk pregnancies “threaten the health or life of the mother or her fetus” and are often prompted by certain risk factors like “existing health conditions, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, or being HIV-positive; overweight and obesity; multiple births, and young or old maternal age.”1 The National Institutes of Health recommend that high-risk pregnancies receive the care of a “special team of health care providers” to ensure healthy outcomes for both mothers and their infants.1 However, such a “special team” represents a professional resource that is swiftly dwindling. The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists project that the United States will lack 6,000 to 8,000 obstetricians by the year 2020, with a potential shortage of 22,000 by 2050.2 Even scarcer are obstetricians, like maternal-fetal medicine specialists, prepared to handle high-risk pregnancies. Considering this need and shortage, telemedicine becomes a natural means of distributing specialty high-risk obstetrical expertise in an efficient manner.