Baby Monitor

Baby Monitor uses interactive voice response technology to offer free mobile screenings to pregnant women and new mothers. When it is time for a prenatal or postnatal screening, a registered user receives a text message with a code that can be redeemed by “flashing” the Baby Monitor phone number to trigger a free call back. The woman selects her preferred language, listens to recorded audio prompts asking her how she and her baby are feeling, and presses keys on her phone’s number pad to respond. All of her responses are logged in an electronic medical record, and our analysis engine determines whether the woman is likely to need a referral to a medical facility or more immediate assistance.

http://www.babymonitor.co/

Local implementation: Kenya, Nairobi & Bungoma East District

Fully implemented and active from 01/01/2012

Saving Lives at Birth partners: the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Government of Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and the World Bank

• New born
• Pregnant women

• Community health worker
• Family/care giver
• Nurse and midwife
• Self-use/patient

• Maternal, newborn, infant and child health
• Pregnancy
• Reproductive health

• Neonatal infections
• pregnancy complications

• Access to information and services
• Data collection
• Decision support systems
• Electronic health /electronic medical record
• Health education
• Health Information Systems (HIS)
• Healthcare management
• Patient monitoring

• Satellite
• Wired network
• Wireless network

• Audio-visual
• Mobile phones
• Smartphones

IVR technology

    None

This project is evaluated? No