What is the EASI Maternity Care Project?

The EASI acronym stands for “effective and seamlessly integrated” and everyone involved in the EASI Maternity Care Project wants to make maternity care EASI – for patients and clinicians. We are a Vancouver-focused, multi-phase project focused on responding to gaps in patient preparedness along the various stages of their maternity care journey. In our current work, maternity providers from family physicians, obstetricians and midwives, along with all the key allied health involved in maternity care as well as patients are working to create a Vancouver-based online maternity information hub for patients, bringing together a curated list of all the best patient resources you can rely on. The initiative was funded by the Shared Care Committee, a joint collaborative committee of Doctors of BC and the Ministry of Health.

What was the Process?

We conducted various opportunities and challenges for participants to help gather in-depth input and feedback. We received:

• An overwhelming 884 recommendations of great maternity resources. Our project teams narrowed the list down to 597 and we received a lot of feedback from providers and patients on what they felt could make it onto the final online resource hub.
• In-depth video recordings from membership walking through the new wireframe concept and giving feedback on their experiences.
•  Comprehensive feedback on the overall design of the website, including the functionality of the prototypes, the terminology used, and how our commitment to diversity has been integrated into the design.