The Dristhi app

The Dristhi project aims to improve the quality of care provided by Auxiliary Nurse-Midwives (ANMs) in rural India by creating a platform that supports decision-making, alerts and scheduling. As the first point of contact in India’s National Rural Health Mission, ANMs are responsible for providing family planning services, antenatal and postnatal care, and immunizations to women and children. The typical catchment area for each ANM is 5,000 people living in 4 or 5 villages. A major component of Dristhi is a mobile app running on Android tablets. The app replicates the current paper-based record system ANMs use while providing new capabilities such as automatic indicator calculations, educational multimedia capabilities and time and activity based alerts for high risk cases.

http://sel.columbia.edu/dristhi/

Local implementation: India, Karnataka

Fully implemented and active from 01/08/2012

World Health Organization Foundation for Research in Health Systems technology partner Thoughtworks. National Rural Health Mission, Karnataka

• Children between 5 and 12
• Children under 5
• New born
• Pregnant women

• Community health worker

• Healthy living
• Immunization
• Maternal, newborn, infant and child health
• Nutrition
• Patient safety
• Pregnancy
• Reproductive health
• family planning

• Neonatal infections
• family planning, pregnancy complications

• Access to information and services
• Data collection
• Decision support systems
• Diagnostic and treatment support
• Electronic health /electronic medical record
• Health education
• Health promotion
• Healthcare management
• Patient monitoring

• Satellite
• Wired network
• Wireless network

• Computers / Servers / Tablets

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This project is evaluated? No