Distributed Processing and Internet Technology to Solve Challenges of Primary Healthcare in India

Pande, A. K.; Kimbahune, Sanjay; Bondale, Nandini; Shinde, Ratnendra; Shanbhag, Sunita

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-28073-3_17

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“…In such circumstances, the RCH program becomes the key program of Primary Healthcare System. [6] III. CHALLENGES FOR PHC AND THE COMMUNITY Although government intends to provide the primary healthcare to the rural community through NRHM, the community reach and the end user benefits get restricted due to the challenges faced by community and PHC.…”

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“…With appropriate user interface and tested usability of the software, mobile phone can be a robust device in the hands of village health worker to provide quality healthcare to remote village community with the help of expert advice [7,8]. However, use of mobile phone and Internet technology have their own challenges like database design, privacy of data, human computer interface along with scalability and computational problems [6]. Expert researchers in the field recommend that government support is critical for sustainability of mHealth projects [9].…”

Section: Mhealth-phc: Mobile Phone Based Community Informatic Toolmentioning

confidence: 99%

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mHEALTH-PHC: A community informatic tool for primary healthcare in India

Bondale

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Pande

2012

2012 IEEE Conference on Technology and Society in Asia (T&SA)

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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has made a significant impact on the functioning of enterprises and the urban communities. However benefits of ICT revolution are yet to reach the rural communities. In this paper, we show how communities in rural area can benefit from informatics, for their primary healthcare needs. We describe an innovative community informatic tool called 'mHEALTH-Primary Health Care' (mHEALTH-PHC), to meet the primary healthcare requirements of the community, developed after studying the needs and the logistic problems related to primary healthcare of the rural tribal population in villages. The paper also covers the adoption challenges and how they are dealt with. mHEALTH-PHC solution is designed, considering the existing infrastructure of public health system in the rural area. The field experience shows that healthcare personnel involved at various levels in Primary Health Center (PHC) are comfortable in using the tool and are enthusiastic to employ such a tool for efficient service to the community. Satisfaction of both, the health personnel and the end beneficiaries is the first level of success for making a mark. mHEALTH-PHC has crossed the first level barrier.

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Section: A Rch Programmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Mhealth-phc: Mobile Phone Based Community Informatic Toolmentioning

confidence: 99%