Swasth is an ict intervention for effective child healthcare delivery in india. child healthcare delivery can be improved by enhancing the health information sharing among the stakeholders – asha workers, doctors at phcs, nrhm and the rural mothers. since asha workers go to various homes in rural areas, the proposed personal digital assistant for asha workers empowers her in many ways. it primarily helps the asha worker log important health information about children which becomes part of their health record. the asha worker has access to the health record and she can provide appropriate contextual recommendations accordingly. the above stated device also helps them to digitize records with efficient retrieval mechanism thus reducing the need of keeping files for record maintenance. digitizing the general treatment instruction helps in faster retrieval of information in efficient manner, thus reducing the requirement of memorizing the treatment process. it also keeps track of consumption of medicines and vaccines. for e.g. when a child is immunized, a record of the vaccines given to the child is stored in the database along with its patient id, patient image, etc. it helps asha workers to motivate the parents to get their child vaccinated. it also provides a personal management space for asha workers where they can find various homes which makes their work easier. the child is provided with a smart health card soon after the birth. the child name, date of birth, blood group are printed on that. it has space for the child’s photo. it has a barcode on it and a sixteen digit unique code which can store the information. when scanned, it gives access to vaccination details, growth track and health record of a particular child which the doctor/asha worker can access and add new details. a desktop can be provided at the primary health care units in villages where the doctor can retrieve and view health record of the child. it helps him to provide effective treatment. health kit for asha workers helps then measure and enter child’s physiological data and compare them. this will help provide basic suggestions to mothers about children and prevent malnutrition among kids. this solution will greatly affect the way basic health data of a village is passed onto the government. as mentioned above that, the information collected by the asha workers takes 6-8 months to reach the concerned authorities (nhrm). this is due to the manual collection and entry of data at various tiers of the healthcare system in india. due the cloud storage technology involved, the information entered by the asha workers in accessible by nrhm at a very early stage. this helps the government act immediately during situations of need.
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