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Nacer

last updated Mar 19, 2013

Overview

Implementing organization: 
Voxiva Company
Implementation Partner(s): 
Ministry of Health of Peru and Peru’s Regional Health Directorate of Ucayali
Income Level of Target Population: 
All income levels

Funding

Funders: 
USAID

Technology

Technology Used: 
Phones › Internet, Phones › Voice
Technology Purpose: 
Improving Data Management › Data Collection, Facilitating Patient Communications › Protecting Patient Privacy
Summary: 

Nacer was created to decrease by half the number of maternal and infant deaths in the Ucayali region in Peru. The Nacer solution allows remote healthcare workers to share data with other remote workers, medical experts, and hospitals, using any telephone (mobile, satellite, or fixed-line telephone systems—personal or public) or Internet technology.

Key program components: 

Nacer facilitates rapid, real-time communication among remote health posts, medical experts and regional hospitals. A centralized database hosts all of this data and allows for real-time access. Through Nacer, the entire health ecosystem can send and receive information in order to monitor patient health, provide referrals and follow-up care, and track supplies and disease outbreaks. Madhu Krishna of Voxiva claims that, “should health personnel report symptoms that are indicative of a serious, underlying health condition in a pregnant woman, regional health workers can review her records and send voicemail messages and other support to ensure the woman is receiving appropriate care.”

Further, health workers can spend more time on provision of quality services to the communities they serve because the solutions eliminate or significantly reduce the need for paper-based data collection, enabling health workers and managers to spend less time on routine administrative tasks.

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