Best mHealth Project
IC UHBOLICE PC #2
highlights * 98.5 percent institutional deliveries registered since implementation of project * MMR reduced from 90 to 51 percent in 2 years
IC UHBOLICE PC #1
Project Jeevandainee Zilla Parishad Wardha The project was started in order to provide timely and effective antenatal care and post natal care to be delivered to both the mother and child. The idea was to use technology to increase the productivity of the health service providers. In order to improve the service delivery, the Chief Executive Officer, Zilla Parishad of Wardha, Gunjan Krishna devised SMS based ANC and PNC tracking system. Under the system the health information collection and updating happens real time by way of SMS. Based on the information, the software generates the maternity card/ immunisation card and due dates of health checkups. Expected date of delivery, immunisation dates are created and alerts for the ANC, PNC and immunisation services are sent before the due date to the health workers in order to ensure timely delivery of services. The goal of the project is to improve the health of the mother and child as reflected in the MMR, IMR, institutional delivery and percentage of low birth rate babies. The objective is to ensure 100 percent registration of ANC cases at a stipulated time, to ensure the timely payment of JSY benefits and to ensure timely and complete immunisation of child born between 0-6 years. Website: www.zpwardha.gov.in
highlights * An integrated mobile phone based public health information system, firstof-its-kind in India * ICT based health information flow from root level to higher level achieved
mCARE - Mobile phone based Public His C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Thiruvananthapuram and Media Lab Asia (promoted by MCIT, Govt. of India) collaborated in developing an ICT (Information and Communication Technology) based Software solution “mCARE” for strengthening health care services at grass root level and synthesising relevant information for health care management. The mobile based application “mCARE” developed by C-DAC enables health workers to use handheld devices such as Smartphone for capturing data from field and thus to analyse public health data from grass root level. The application can be deployed on any smart phones which runs on Windows Mobile Operating System. The “mCARE’’ has two major components working in tandem- “health@ palm” – an mHealth application which runs on smart phones and empowers health workers for health data capture and retrieval and centrally hosted web based application for health related data analysis and report generation. Website: www.cdactvm.in
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