Summary

Program goals

In India, 1 maternal death occurs every 10 minutes due to pregnancy complications. 59% are due to high risk pregnancies and 90% of those deaths can be prevented by proper health interventions. With such alarming statistics, Care Mother responds to the needs of pregnant families by providing health providers and patients an innovative technology that allows for accessible communication, decentralization of health services to local health workers, efficient data management on a shared cloud, and reduction in travel time and operational expenses.

Key program components

Care Mother offers a mobile application, a solar powered toolkit with testing device and a web application.

The Mobile Application allows patients and doctors to:

• Connect with one another
• Share information and provide feedback
• Send voice/text messages
• Schedule appointments
• Provide recommendations to patients i.e. immunizations
• Analyze patient data to identify potential risks/complications
• Book lab tests from home, sample tests, and share reports

The portable, solar-powered KIT allows health providers to:

• Access patients in remote, rural areas with limited internet connection
• Create individual, patient profiles
• Administer a primary health check for pregnant women using tools i.e. blood pressure, glucose check device, lanset, medications, weight scale, hemoglobin meter, thermometer, and fetal heart rate meter
• Identify potential health hazards like gestational diabets, anaemia, improper nutritional growth, hypertension, and fetal distress

The  Web Application allows doctors and patients to:

• Access the same information and resources as the mobile application
• Manage data and use a secured communications platform
• Generate patient profiles that can access patient information
• Send SMS to individuals or groups of patients