Ashok Chandavarkar Intel

ashok.chandavarkar@intel.com

We would like to present a paper on ICT for achieving Millennium Development Goals or under Leveraging Technology for Transforming Standards of Care across Nations.
On the 1st topic the Abstract would be: Using technology as an enabler for mobile field health

workers to tackle MDG 4 & 5 The globe faces a common set of issues pertaining to healthcare, with differing degrees of severity based on the geography we live in. With growing forms of illness that manifests from either age, genetic disposition, economic & living conditions a common theme that emerges is that, existing models of care are likely to be insufficient in handling the disease load. Countries would need to focus more resources on preventive and primary care beyond the hospital either at the community level or in the home of the beneficiary. Based on the need we have seen different models of care evolve. We would be referring to two such models, both focused on how technology could enable MDG 4, 5 and 6. One such model is operational in the Capital Territory of Lagos, Nigeria while the other is operational at a Taluk level in Maharashtra.
Empowering Mobile Field Health workers at a Taluk level, Maharashtra, India: This project, running for the past 9 months across 107 villages covering 330,000 population with 9 PHCs, aims at empowering the health workers in the field, while improving their effectiveness in the field in screening and surveillance of their beneficiaries. The healthcare project with inputs from the ANMs, SHSRC and domain consultants from Indian Institute of Public Health initially aims to show that technology can help pregnant women stay healthy and deliver healthy babies. Local health workers use mobile technologies (netbooks) and our screening software to identify high-risk pregnancies early on, before complications develop, then refer women for further diagnosis and care. The ANMs develop schedules for visits and generate reports that align to the MIS requirements at sub-center (registers) and MIS requirements of the state. In addition, the solution enables immunization tracking to help stem drop outs. The next phase of the project is to ensure automation of all the 18 registers to enable faster information retrieval, algorithms that would provide trends to ANMs about the status of their beneficiaries, SMS gateway to enable the ANM to correspond with beneficiaries and the PHC doctor. On a parallel track, efforts would be made to develop open standards based, self paced e-learning content for ANMs that would not just build capacity but enable assessment of their skills for targeted F2F trainings.

This paper was submitted for eWORLDFORUM 2011 conference

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