App/Software

The innovation is “Virtual Mentor" that when triggered by a spoken command interacts audibly with the birth attendant during a postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) event to increase adherence to established management algorithms and timeliness of interventions. We will use an “off-the-shelf" package to rapidly and inexpensively develop the prototype for a PPH VM--the Amazon Alexa device.

The basis for the WelTel mHealth program came from a clinical study conducted by Dr. Richard Lester, scientific director of WelTel and faculty in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. “Cell phones are everywhere in Africa and usage costs are very low," says Dr. Lester. “This makes them a great tool for patient care in a resource limited setting like rural Kenya."

The electronic Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Care android mobile application and web portal (eMNCH Care) will improve equity in MNCH service delivery by enhancing accountability and transparency in service provision and ensuring every mother and child receives an adequate level of care. Through strengthened governance and comprehensive data utilization, eMNCH Care aims to improve health outcomes of women and children in remote districts of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

We are using sector leading business intelligence tools to find, mobilize, treat and reintegrate every women with fistula in two regions of Madagascar.

In the Amazon region, anemia and malnutrition are major public health concerns. Home visits by community health agents (CHAs) have been identified as a key intervention to improve child health through the provision of health education and referrals. The research team has conducted extensive performance evaluations of CHAs in the region and have identified the tools they need to be more effective.

We propose the use of mobile phone technology to help caregivers track and respond to young children's developmental progress in a timely manner. Caregivers/parents will be trained on how to record developmental milestones achieved by their children in real time. The immediate benefits of the innovation are that when children's development is tracked, developmental delays will be identified and dealt with early.

Breastfeeding is one of the most powerful interventions to reduce child deaths and promote cognitive development. In Kenya, less than half of infants are exclusively breastfed for 6 months. Women are faced with misinformation, a lack of social support and limited access to expert nutrition consultation. To address these issues, we will test three tools by combining them in an online support network - “Walezi Pamoja" (Nurturing Together) - for mothers in Africa's most internet-connected country.

We will adapt and scale the existing Mobile WACh - a human-computer hybrid communication system, connects women and newborns to care during the most at risk period, bringing a virtual provider into the home - platform, which has demonstrated efficacy for maternal and child outcomes, to target the problems of neonatal mortality and unmet need for family planning. We will utilize the strengths of our collaborative research partners to evaluate this intervention with plans to scale into electronic medical records (EMR) country-wide.

Muso and its government partners have designed Proactive Community Case Management (ProCCM), an operating system for health care delivery optimized to reach every patient early. Prepared for global scale, ProCCM deploys proactive doorstep care: Community Health Workers (CHWs) actively search for patients door-to-door, and connect them to lifesaving care.

The Lekker platform is a learning tool aiming at behavioral change by civic education in community-health of children age 12-17. The content on premature marriage, family planning, sexually transmitted and infectious diseases is personalized to match students' level of education. Accessible by computers, tablets or smartphones, it uses gamification to keep users engaged.