mHealth
Digital transformation through mHealth
The solution is used by around 4300 CHWs and 500 Project Assistants across Bangladesh and also used to collect incoming data from 43,000 community based health volunteers. Currently through our CHWs this solution caters to more than 18 million households reaching a population of 75 million.
5000
frontline health workers currently use this application and are able to provide better health services utilising this platform
620
BRAC offices across Bangladesh using the platform for reporting, monitoring, and decision-making.
75 million
people in 18 million households across rural communities and urban slums registered in the platform.
- Registers households and members with unique ID
- Record longitudinal health data of each member taking service from BRAC health points (Shasthya Kormi, Programme Assistant and BRAC facilities)
- Integrated solution connecting communities to facilities ensuring no interruption of the flow of data
- Identifying pregnant mothers-at-risk through pre-defined algorithm in the platform
- Triggered referral to nearby health centers in case of complex cases
- System integrated personalised counseling based on predefined logics
- Health check-ups for pregnant and postpartum mothers, neonatal and child counseling for children under 5 years of age, adolescent counseling, non-communicable disease (NCD) and eye-disease screening for adults
- An integrated digital financial system for direct and reconciliation free payment management
- Inventory solution to manage branch and facility inventory
- Household and member migration solution for handling rapid migration events in Bangladesh
- Aggregated and granular reporting mechanism for managers. Allowing them to take informed decisions and track the performance of CHWs
- A member is registered only once in the system and provided with a unique ID, through which all the data collected in this system is sorted. As a result, a patient can be longitudinally tracked and provided with quality services.
- Time saved due to automated reporting mechanism
- Leaders and decision makers do not have to wait for month-end reports and real-time decisions can be taken
- A change/update in system takes a few seconds to be applied through application update process
- System can generate risk flags, counseling messages and trigger referral ensuring quality treatment in critical cases
- Field managers can track CHW’s performance in real-time and monitor their activities
- Integrated facility and community solution ensure one-time registration for a service point and no loss of service data
- Migration also ensures one-time registration for a service point and no loss of service data
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