India Health Care Project
Reaping the benefits of information technology (IT) for improving the healthcare system at grassroots level, CMC has developed and implemented a PDA-based healthcare project called India Heath Care (IHC) in Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh.
The pilot project with a time span of two-and-half-a-years was implemented with a $ 2.25 lakh financial grant from the InfoDev project of the World Bank.
As part of the project, CMC and the department of health, medical and family welfare of the state government successfully deployed 225 PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) in the district. The state government is planning to extend this solution to all other districts in the state.
Under the project, a number of desktop computers and hand-held mobile computing devices (PDAs) are being provided to Primary Health Centres (PHCs) and Auxiliary Nurses and Midwives (ANMs). While nursing or counselling the beneficiaries, the ANMs collect data using the PDA in the villages.
At the PHC, they transfer the data from PDA to the desktop. All data that is available on the desktops at various PHCs is transferred to the district level and State Health Commissioner's office using available network.
Data compilation and report generation could be done at the PHC, district and state levels. Under the IHC system, the data compiled will be available in the PDAs in the form of information like house-wise data of pregnant women in the village, immunisation information of children and other healthcare programmes, demographic data, mother and child health care programmes, family planning services, birth and death registrations, etc.
With a view to sharing the experience in implementing the World Bank-funded IHC project in Nalgonda district, CMC and the state government jointly organised a workshop here today.
More than 100 participants including technologists, health officials, medical staff and academicians from various states attended the workshop. Kodela Siva Prasad Rao, the minister for health, inaugurated the workshop.
