Dashboard

The Dashboard is the first thing you see after signing in. It summarizes the births you’ve recorded into tiles and charts, so you can spot patterns across your practice that you can’t see one record at a time.

Everything on this page is scoped to your practice, and only completed births count — a birth is included once its outcomes are entered and the record is completed.

The header names your practice and reads your births so far this calendar year — for example “42 births in 2026”. A practice with nothing recorded yet — no completed births on record and no course-of-care records in the selected timeframe — sees “No births recorded yet.” instead. If you have course-of-care records but no completed births this year, the header reads “0 births in 2026”.

On the right, Add patient + birth and Add birth open the matching drawer on the Births page. The read-only Viewer role doesn’t see these buttons.

Getting set up

While your practice is still being set up, a Get started checklist sits near the top with the message “A few steps to set up your practice.” and a progress counter such as 1 of 3. The three steps are Add your first patient, Add your first birth and Complete a birth record; each unfinished step has a Start button that takes you to the action. The checklist disappears once every step is done, so an established practice never sees it. It only shows to roles that can manage records — the Viewer role doesn’t see it.

Filing reminder

From January 1 through March 31 (Pacific time), a practice that has completed course-of-care records from the previous year and hasn’t filed for that year yet sees an “ACNM Benchmarking submissions are open” banner. Prepare on Exports takes you to Exports to prepare and file. The banner goes away once you’ve filed or the window closes.

Choosing what the dashboard shows

A control row across the top steers the charts below. Change any control and the tiles and charts re-compose immediately. Your choices are kept in the page address, so you can bookmark or share the view you work from.

Scope — choose My practice’s dashboard (everyone in the practice) or My dashboard (only the births you attended).
Timeframe — Last 3 months, Last 6 months, Last 12 months (the default) or Last 24 months, each a rolling window ending this month; or Last year, the previous calendar year from January to December.
Add benchmarking averages — pick one benchmark cohort to compare against: Low volume (<50 births/yr), Low-moderate volume (50–199), High-moderate volume (200–499), High volume (≥500), or BirthTracks community. Your choice draws that cohort’s de-identified average as a dashed line on all fourteen rate charts at once. Choose Add benchmarking averages again to turn the overlay off. See Benchmarking.

The Key on the right explains the marks: a dashed line is the Benchmark, a solid line is My rate for the selected period.

Count tiles

Five tiles count the newborns your practice delivered, so twins count as two:

Tile	Counts
Births in this month (e.g. Births in September 2026)	The current month
Last month (e.g. August 2026)	The previous month
This year (e.g. 2026)	The current calendar year
Last year (e.g. 2025)	The previous calendar year
Total births	Every completed, dated birth on record

Each tile carries its own named period, so the Timeframe control doesn’t change them. Scope does: My dashboard narrows every tile to the births you attended.

The charts

The charts follow the Scope and Timeframe you chose.

Mode of birth. A card on the left stacks two donuts:

Vaginal births — the vaginal share of births in the period.
Cesarean births — the cesarean share, split into primary and repeat.

Beside it, Births is a monthly bar chart of volume over the timeframe, split into vaginal and cesarean births, and below it sit the Total cesarean rate and NTSV cesarean rate trends. On a narrow screen the donut card and the charts stack.

Rate trends. Twelve more rate charts follow, three to a row:

VBAC success rate
Postpartum hemorrhage rate
Induction rate
Epidural rate
Preterm birth <37w rate
Breastfeeding at discharge
Intact perineum rate
3rd/4th degree laceration rate
Episiotomy rate
Apgar < 7 at 5 min
NICU admission rate
Low birth weight rate

Each rate chart shows a monthly rate with a solid line for your average over the period, and the period’s rate in the top-right corner. A rate reads — when no births in the period met that measure’s criteria. With a benchmark cohort selected, a dashed line shows the cohort’s average; if the cohort’s sample is too small to report, a note says so instead of drawing the line.

Every chart has Chart and Table tabs under its title. Table shows the same figures month by month.

Where the numbers come from

The count tiles and the Births chart read the completed, dated births recorded on the Births page. For a practice that logs births there, so do the two donuts. A practice whose births arrive only as registry submissions has no Births log, so its donuts read its course-of-care records instead. The rate charts read your practice’s course-of-care records, which carry the clinical detail those rates need, such as parity and TOLAC.

If you log births on the Births page and some of your course-of-care records aren’t linked to a logged birth, a line under the donuts says how many (e.g. “2 courses of care not linked to a logged birth”). Select it to open those records and link each one to its birth.

Recent births

At the bottom, Recent births lists your practice’s five most recent births, whatever their status, with their Patient, Date, number of Babies and Status. View all opens the Births page. A practice with no births yet sees “No births logged yet” here instead.

Next steps

Statistics — build your own time series, distributions and provider comparisons.
Benchmarking — how your practice compares to the de-identified registry.