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How eCompliance Works

Electronic Reporting System

Online SMS Gateway

Patients, Health Worker & Program Manager

Dose missed!

eCompliance Tablet

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Back

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The Front End • Uses only off-the-shelf

components A fingerprint reader An Android Tablet

The Back End• SMS Gateway for Sending

Alerts• Electronic Medical Record

System• Central Database

SMS

Encrypted Data

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PATIENT AND COMMUNITY LEVEL• Positive impact on the psyche• Improves motivation• Seen as dedication towards quality treatment• Interest generated by technology intervention in disadvantaged areas• Re-enforces belief in the government and DOTS• Indirect benefit- discussion of health issues

AT LEVEL OF FIELD STAFF• Ensures integrity of DOTS: eliminates unsupervised doses, which are otherwise the norm

across the world• Eliminates human errors in management of DOTS. For example, if a patient comes on the

wrong day, eCompliance automatically reminds the counselors and prevents such occurrences

• Improves skills• Makes counseling easy, ie. easier to convince patients• Accurate reporting and up-to-date intelligence

– Eliminates human error• Saves time spent in going through paper records• Real-time records allows counselors to target counseling• Produces all reports automatically.• The above results in 30% improvement in productivity and reduction of costs, which more

than pays for the cost of eCompliance terminals.

The Key Benefits of eCompliance

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The Key Benefits of eCompliance

MANAGEMENT LEVEL• Accuracy of records• Transparency• An accurate platform for monitoring and evaluation of the core

program– Eliminates absenteeism, late coming of staff– Prevents tampering with patient data

• Transparent treatment supervision• Ensures proper payment of performance based incentives

THE PUBLIC HEALTH PERSPECTIVE• ENSURES DOTS is being delivered• Halts the development of drug resistance due to default.• Provides unlimited quality data for future research