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Mobile data collection has been proven to aid the maternal and child health sector. Research has shown it to increase antenatal care by 41% and improve facility delivery rates by over 100%. Programs featuring mobile data collection have also seen family members participate more in antenatal care, with husbands engaging 60% and mothers-in-law 110% more often than in paper-based programs.
Organizations are using mobile data collection platforms to digitize the partograph and IMCI to allow programs to keep track of pregnancies and clinic visits, diagnose any issues from data collected, and offer advice to mothers and their families on what to expect faster and more accurately than ever before.
More projects on CommCare are focused on maternal and child health than any other sector. In fact, our platform registers one in every 110 pregnancies worldwide.
Case sharing enables users to send medical information directly to referral facilities and improve lines of communication between field and clinical work.
Mobile apps can support online and offline data collection, facilitate record keeping, and generate easily shareable reports for community health workers.
Digital forms improve protocol adherence for community health workers and help to identify symptoms in mothers and children requiring emergency care.
Training manuals and behavior change communication materials are integrated within the app, ensuring easy access to accurate information.
Mobile applications eliminate the need for paper medical records by storing medical information for each woman and child registered through the app.
Multimedia allows pregnant women and mothers to listen to messages in their own language or view culturally relevant visuals alongside their community health workers.
Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) in UP counsel and evaluate women and newborns for danger signs before and after birth.
Community health workers monitor and track the health of pregnant mothers, orphans, and vulnerable children in Kenya.
The Haitian Ministry has trained more than 300 community health workers to treat and refer women and newborns to health facilities
Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) in Uttar Pradesh counsel and evaluate women and newborns for danger signs before and after birth.
The ReMiND project in Uttar Pradesh, India, is well known as a leading example of best practices for using mobile health technology to increase key maternal and newborn health practices. Through ReMiND, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and Dimagi are using CommCare to help Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) counsel and evaluate women and their newborns for danger signs both before and after birth. Case management allows ASHAs to register and track every pregnant patient through pregnancy to the postpartum period, as well as newborns, through their first year of life. Over 200 ASHAs have been trained to use these applications, ultimately reaching over 20,000 women and their children.
Community health workers monitor and track the health of pregnant mothers, orphans, and vulnerable children in Kenya.
Under the APHIAplus project in Kenya, Pathfinder, with the support of USAID, has worked with Dimagi to monitor and track the health of pregnant mothers, orphans, and vulnerable children. Using CommCare, CHWs are better able to monitor maternal and newborn health indicators, keep women informed of their expected delivery date and signs of complications, and help women prepare for delivery. As of spring 2014, over 260 CHWs trained through mHMtaani were using CommCare. The application also contributed to an increased number of facility-based deliveries as a result of due date reminders.
The Haitian Ministry has trained more than three hundred community health workers to treat and refer women and newborns to health facilities.
Pathfinder International, in collaboration with Dimagi, USAID, and the Haitian Ministry, has trained more than 300 CHWs under the mSante mHealth Project. This mobile application focuses on case management, health service delivery, referrals for tracking patients between home and the health facility, and features modules focused on interventions targeted at family planning and maternal and child health. Pathfinder and partners are currently working toward scaling this project to the national level.
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