Predictive Analytics Dashboard Aims to Turn the Tide on North Texas Maternal Health Crisis
05/12/2026
DALLAS – The Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI) today announced the launch of a new maternal health early-warning dashboard to help combat North Texas’ maternal health crisis. The Maternal Outcomes Monitoring System (MOMS) dashboard is a predictive data tool designed to support the North Texas Maternal Health Accelerator (MHA), a community-wide initiative led by Texas Christian University and UT Southwestern Medical Center in tackling some of the country’s worst maternal health outcomes in Dallas and Tarrant counties.
Go here to view the MOMS dashboard: https://www.dallascounty.org/departments/dchhs/public-health/maternal-health/
North Texas has endured exceptionally high rates of severe maternal complications, with Tarrant County, for example, recording an estimated 48 maternal deaths per 100,000 births. The new MOMS dashboard serves as a community-level early warning system: it forecasts surges in severe obstetric complications (SOC) and neonatal intensive care (NICU) admissions up to 12 months in advance, mapped down to the ZIP Code and census tract level. Armed with this hyper-local foresight, healthcare providers, MHA partners, policymakers, and community organizations can proactively direct resources to the neighborhoods where mothers and babies are most at risk, before crises occur.
PCCI is a key data science partner for the MHA program, bringing to the effort its decade of experience with AI-driven programs that support expectant mothers and expertise in Non-Medical Drivers of Health (NMDoH). The MOMS dashboard builds on that foundation by combining clinical and community data into a single, actionable index. It integrates multiple data sources including medical factors derived from the unique DFW Hospital Foundation data, as well as NMDoH such as neighborhood stability, unemployment levels, transportation access, and health literacy challenges from PCCI’s Community Vulnerability Compass.
By revealing where clinical risks intersect with social vulnerabilities, the dashboard highlights “hot spots” that might otherwise be overlooked. For instance, it can flag a neighborhood where high rates of hypertension and poor past birth outcomes coincide with limited prenatal care access or economic instability.
This kind of insight allows MHA partners to tailor interventions to each community’s needs, whether that means accelerating distribution of iron supplements, deploying mobile prenatal clinics, expanding telehealth for at-risk ZIP Codes, or bolstering social support in areas with high poverty and low health literacy. Ultimately, the goal is to educate the community and use data to drive targeted, collaborative action that can reduce severe complications and improve maternal and newborn outcomes across North Texas.
“For the first time, we have a true early-warning system for maternal health at the community level. We can finally see where and why mothers are at risk and act before it’s too late.” said Steve Miff, PhD, President and CEO of PCCI. “By harnessing predictive analytics and hyper-local data, this dashboard helps us move beyond reactive care and target the neighborhoods that need resources the most. It’s a game-changer that will save the lives of mothers and babies and transform how we tackle maternal health outcomes in North Texas.”
Dr. Stuart Flynn, a co-lead of the North Texas MHA and Founding Dean of TCU’s Burnett School of Medicine, emphasized the importance of collaboration around these insights. “North Texas has some of the most alarming maternal health statistics in the nation and we simply cannot accept that,” Dr. Flynn said. “This new dashboard lets us spot maternal health disparities in real time and pinpoint the communities in greatest need. It’s an invaluable tool for clinicians, public health experts, and community leaders alike. With the right data in hand, we can align our efforts, target interventions, and truly save lives. This is what collaboration and data-driven action looks like: working together, armed with smart insights, to turn the tide on our maternal health crisis.”
The MOMS dashboard will be publicly accessible via an online portal, offering all MHA partners and North Texas communities timely, reliable data to inform health strategy, research, and public policy decisions. Planners anticipate that local health agencies, hospitals, nonprofits, and policymakers will use the tool to track neighborhood-level trends and measure the impact of interventions over time. The North Texas MHA’s overarching mission is to dramatically improve maternal outcomes in the region, and the launch of this advanced dashboard marks a significant step toward that goal.
About PCCI
The Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation is a mission-driven nonprofit research organization with industry-leading expertise in the practical application of artificial intelligence and social determinants of health. PCCI leverages the transformative power of data science to develop innovative, actionable solutions that more effectively identify needs, prioritize services, empower providers, and engage patients.
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