media lab asia ca:sh community-based, accessible & sustainable health
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MEDIA LAB ASIA ca:sh Community-based, accessible & sustainable health. Digital Nations Brunch Nov. 28, 2001 Vishwanath Anantraman Nathan Eagle Vikram Sheel Kumar. ca:sh – mission statement. To build a health geographical information system that provides medical decision - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
MEDIA LAB ASIA
ca:shCommunity-based, accessible &
sustainable health
Digital Nations Brunch
Nov. 28, 2001
Vishwanath Anantraman
Nathan Eagle
Vikram Sheel Kumar
ca:sh – mission statement
To build a health geographical information
system that provides medical decision
support and logistic support for maternal
and child health in rural India.
Public health system in rural India
PHC
ANM ANM ANM ANM ANMANM
VILLAGES
PHC: Primary Health CenterANM: Auxiliary Nurse & Midwife
The Auxiliary Nurse and Midwife
The lowest node in rural health, she travels from house to house and visits the PHC once/2 weeks.
She is educated and familiar with English.
Generally 5000 patients come under her care
A handheld-based health platform to augment the ANM’s services
Logistic Support To address resource allocation problems
Medical Decision Support To bring greater expertise to the village-level
Behavior Modification As preventative medicine is the most cost-effective type
Logistic Support
Immunization scheduling 98 % of all vaccines for the Expanded Program on
Immunization are funded by the government. Only 55% of 1 year old children are immunized to
measles.
An immunization schedule held by an ANM in Andhra Pradesh
Medical decision support
Pregnancy risk scoring Growth charting
XML-based applications running on a linux handheld
To add value to the rich data being collected
Behavior modification
Increase drug compliance 87 % of all pregnant women in rural India are
anemic, most of which is preventable with Fe or B12 + Folic Acid
Increase accountability of health workers
Scalability
How can we turn this project into a local business?
Additional non-medical applications? Dristi (gov't complaints – egovernance),
Tarahaat (ecommerce) Existing Infrastructure
PHO – rural ‘phone shops’ in 60% of villages Bicycle Bandwidth?
What we are doing
Create a platform that can be dual-use:voice messagingphoto sendingGIS surveysphoto printing
Discover what works
Team
Vishwanath Anantraman
Nathan Eagle
Reshma Khilnani
Vikram Kumar
Tarjei Mikkelsen
Advisor: Sandy Pentland