DRISTHI
Given the thrust towards mHealth in India, a Wellcome Trust funded project titled “Development and Impact Assessment of an mHealth Package for Rural India” is being undertaken by a consortium led by Foundation for Research in Health Systems (FRHS) and including the Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization (WHO), and Earth Institute, Columbia University.The project, which will be piloted in Karnataka, will develop an "mHealth Package" – a strategic mix of mobile technology applications and support materials – to support NRHM’s reproductive, maternal and child health (RMCH) services. The technology will be easy to use, provided free of charge, and is being developed with the intention of immense scale-up following rigorous pilot testing, impact assessment and revision. The resulting intervention will empower rural health workers and their clients, assisting them across the range of Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health care, integrating and streamlining data with existing HMIS standards for enhanced provider performance and population health outcomes.
Funding Source: Wellcome trust