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Aarogyam ICT for Mother and Child Care

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Aarogyam ICT for Mother and Child Care data sheet 846 Views
Author: 
Tiwari, Alok
Publication Date: 
Jul 2011
Publication Type: 
Report/White paper
Abstract: 

‘Aarogyam’ is a Sanskrit word which means "complete freedom from illness”. Aarogyam is an ICT based responsive system which ensures and involves active participation of all key stakeholders viz. local administration, health facilities and doctors, frontline health workers (ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activists), ANM (Auxiliary Nurse Midwife), and AWW (Angan Wadi Workers)), village heads and beneficiaries, to ensure that a pregnant woman is provided with ANC, PNC and complete immunization throughout the continuum of care.   Aarogyam maintains a village wise database of all the beneficiaries (pregnant/lactating women, children up to 5 years) of an area, which gets continually updated with new data generating on the field with the help of front line health workers. The database thus generated is the backbone of the software system used by Aarogyam. This system generates automated alerts in the form of vernacular voice calls/SMS to the beneficiary thus enabling the beneficiary with vital information at their door step.   The system not only provides beneficiary with the information to be acted upon but also ensures that the services are delivered to the beneficiary by generating automated alerts (vernacular voice calls/SMS) for the ANM and Block level health officials, informing them of due services in their area.  

 

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IQSMS


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IQSMS data sheet 3787 Views

	

      
Website for the Tool: 

    

            

                    http://www.iqstrategy.net/frmi...        

        





      
Organization that developed the Tool: 

    

            

                    Futures Group        

        





      
Main Contact: 

    

            

                    Bobby Jefferson.        

        





      
Problem or Need: 

    

            

                    
Tanzania MOH and donors introduced reporting requirements for PMTCT (preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS) facilities to submit monthly reports to the district and regional levels for progam monitoring and decision making. Futures Group is responsible for collecting reports from PMTCT facilities across four regions. Sites are remote and there is no Internet, and no computers.


To meet the technical and budgetary challenges we developed IQSMS, an open source, freely available SMS reporting tool monitoring and evaluation data collection, to enable facilites to report on PMTCT indicators. IQSMS is used to track program activities at PMTCT sites in rural Tanzania using basic SMS mobile phone technology.

        

        





      
Main Contact Email : 

    

            

                    bjefferson@futuresgroup.com        

        





      
Brief Description: 

    

            

                    
IQSMS is a freely available, software using SMS  data in a predetermined format.  Information is sent to a dedicated central laptop connected to Motorola mobile phones. The IQSMS software aggregates incoming SMS reports into an SQL database.  Automated data quality checks, business rules and immediate notifications are sent to users ensuring that only validated data is added to the database. Aggregated PMTCT data is instantly available to district, regional and national managers based on role views.





FINALIST AND HONORABLE MENTION IN STOCKHOM CHALLENGE AWARD 2010


International Quality Short Message Services focus on development and  implementation of a software technology that uses mobile phone to report  data to a dedicated centralized computer. This will help coordinating  medical care in various part of Tanzania.  It is a project with great  impact and potential for transferability particularly as the costs of  telecom tend to decline with volume. It is a case of e-health, more  clearly mobile e-health. International Quality Short Message Services  makes health services available. a service which must be recognized.  Congratulations.

        

        





      
Tool Category: 

    

            

                    Resides and runs on a computer with tethered modem or mobile phone        

        





      
Key Features : 

    

            

                    
The software uses SMS  data in a predetermined format, sent to a dedicated central laptop connected to a Motorola mobile phone. The IQSMS software records incoming SMS reports into an SQL database.  Automated data quality checks, business rules and immediate notifications are sent to users ensuring that only validated data is added to database. Aggregated PMTCT data is instantly available to district, regional and national managers based on role views.


IQSMS has reduced the time and costs associate with traveling to 535 facilities for data reporting, eliminated need to aggregate paper reports, reduced the need for expensive equipment, improved compliance in monthly reporting and has inspired confidence by rural healthcare workers that their results were accurately reported.


For the period from Jan –Dec 2009, 9867 total reports were submitted and 9400 reports were successfully validated. As the project takes advantage of mobile phones already owned by health workers, the  training requirements are relatively low.

        

        





      
Main Services: 

    

            

                    Information Resources/Information Databases        

        





      
Tool Maturity: 

    

            

                    Currently deployed        

        





      
Release Date: 

    

            

                    2009-12        

        





      
Platforms: 

    

            

                    All phones -- SMS        

        





      
Current Version: 

    

            

                    1.3        

        





      
Program/Code Language: 

    

            

                    C/C++        

        





      
Organizations Using the Tool: 

    

            

                    
PMTCT facilities providing services to all mothers, fathers and children to infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. The plan is to scale up to include more PMTCT sites supported by AIDSRelief, the NGO we work with. The IQSMs has been demonstrated to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and we are thinking of introducing the system to other regions not supported by AIDSRelief.

        

        





      
Number of Current End Users: 

    

            

                    100-1,000        

        





      
Number of current beneficiaries: 

    

            

                    100-1,000        

        





      
Languages supported: 

    

            

                    English, Swahili        

        





      
Is the Tool's Code Available?: 

    

            

                    Yes        

        





      
Is an API available to interface with your tool?: 

    

            

                    Yes        

        





      
Countries: 

    

            

                    Tanzania        

        





      
Featured?: 

    

            

                    Yes        

        





      
Featured on homepage?: 

    

            

                    Yes