Mobile Technologies for Community Health (MOTECH)
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Partner(s):
Dr. James Phillips Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health Access: Private Released: October 2009 |
Mobile Technology for Community Health (MOTECH) is a initiative to test whether low-cost mobile phone technology can improve information-sharing among health care workers, and by doing so, improve maternal and infant health in rural communities in Ghana. Funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MOTECH is a collaboration between the Grameen Foundation, the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, the Ghana Health Service, and CCNMTL.
The Grameen Foundation developed a suite of services delivered over basic mobile phones that provides health information to pregnant women and encourages them to seek antenatal care from local facilities. After the birth, the system addresses common questions about newborn care. Simultaneously, the MOTECH system collects information about patients for health workers. This information is used to identify women and newborns in their area in need of healthcare services and automates the patient-tracking process. CCNMTL created a proof-of-concept reporting system for MOTECH that shows how data about patients collected by health workers could be used in reports and visualizations to assist health managers who supervise Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) facilities.
The Mobile Technologies for Community Health (MOTECH) is a Triangle Initiative project.Related project categories:
Medicine and Health
