mHealth Compendium
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Originally developed by the African Strategies for Health (ASH) Project, the mHealth Compendiums were six annual collections of detailed information about mHealth initiatives and programs. When the ASH Project ended in 2016, the K4Health Project agreed to house an archive of the mHealth Compendium Database on the mHealth Knowledge portal.
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- ItemEmergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT)Thomasena O’Byrne, Action Meningitis Country Manager, Meningitis Research Foundation, Email: thomasenao@meningitis.orgEmergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) is an mHealth point-of-care triage system, implemented at the primary level by which health surveillance assistants in Malawi are enabled to detect vital signs of severe illness.
- ItemmWaterAnne Feighery, Co-Founder and CEO, mWater, Email: annie@mWater.co | Peter Khaemba, USAID, Email: pkhaemba@usaid.govmWater is a free mobile platform for mapping water sources, sharing test results and performing surveys. The application integrates with the mWater test kit to automatically count the number of bacteria grown on a test plate and compute the results.
- ItemEnat Messenger for Maternal Health in EthiopiaYigeremu Abebe Asemere, Ethiopia Country Director, Clinton Health Access Initiative | Email: yasemere@clintonhealthaccess.orgHealth workers use messenger system to facilitate tracking and referrals of pregnant women to increase delivery at health centers
- ItemTupange SMS Community Tracking SystemNeson Keyonzo, Project Director, Tupange Project Kenya | Tel: +254-728-175810, email: jdhiman@tupange.or.keHealth facility staff send SMS on FP commodity levels to a web-based platform to monitor and inform facility stock levels and redistribution
- ItemAct For Birth, UgandaHanifah Sengendo, Chief of Party, Saving Newborn Lives, Email: hanifah.sengendo@savethechildren.org | Rachel Gordon, Program Manager, USAID, Email: rgordon@usaid.govAct for Birth improves quality of care at birth through use of a fetal heart rate monitor and an action-oriented mobile phone based mortality audit system. Data on maternal and neonatal deaths are captured in real-time by midwives and information is sent to a central database. Village health team members assist with referral of mothers with danger signs and report deaths via the mobile system. Data is analyzed and used for decision making to improve quality of care.
- ItemtransportMYpatient: Facilitating access to treatment for obstetric fistulaeAlexandra Cairns, Communications Manager, CCBRT, Tel: + 255-0-22-260-2192 | Email: alexandra.cairns@ccbrt.or.tzFistula case finders use Vodafone's M-PESA to purchase bus tickets and transport fistula patients to hospital for restorative surgery
- ItemmTIKKADr. Alain B. Labrique, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Email: alabriqu@gmail.comThe mTikka system is a virtual vaccination registry and immunization performance tracking system designed to reduce barriers to timely vaccination of infants in rural Bangladesh that optimizes recordkeeping, manages workflows, and connects families to routine immunization services.
- ItemAliveCor Heart Monitor – Mobile ECGDr. Dave Albert, Founder, AliveCor | Email: marketing@alivecor.comiPhone conversion into a physician and patient-used clinical-grade heart monitor via electrode-embedded wireless case and AliveECG app
- ItemmSakhiMadhuri Narayanan, Country Representative, IntraHealth International, Email: mnarayanan@intrahealth.org | France Donnay, Senior Program Officer MNCH, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Email: france.donnay@gatesfoundation.orgmSakhi is a mobile phone based job aid for accredited social health activists (ASHAs). The interactive audio/video guided application provides support to ASHAs in conducting routine MNCH care. After registration of the patient, the system generates a home visit schedule and instructions for care, screening and referral specific to each visit by the ASHA.
- ItemiPhones for Malaria Indicator SurveyEmily Bostick, Program Director, Global Fund Round 10 for CRS/Sierra Leone, Catholic Relief Services | Email: emily.bostick@crs.orgUse of iFormBuilder platform to collect household malaria questionnaire data on Apple 3GS iPhones, allowing timely monitoring and analysis
- ItemZidiH. Moka Lantum, Managing Partner, MicroClinic Technology, Email: moka.lantum@microclinictech.com | Dr. John Munyu, Chief Executive Officer, Kenya Medical Supplies Authority, Email: john.munyu@kemsa.co.keA cloud based software service that is used in dispensaries, health centers and out-patient departments that allows HCW's to record and access patient data using web-enabled devices. HCW's can use the software offline or online. ZiDi helps HCW's to adhere to clinical protocols, track and forecast drug inventory and can be interoperated with DHIS2 and national drug logistic management information systems.
- ItemWorkplace-based SMS Awareness CampaignLinllian Nakato, Communications Advisor, Health Initiatives for the Private Sector Project (HIPS) | Tel: +256-414-347590SMS-based key prevention messages and education on FP, HIV/AIDS and other health issues to employees, their families and community networks
- ItemmHeroDykki Settle, Informatics Director, IntraHealth International, Email: dsettle@intrahealth.org; Stuart Campo, Innovation Deployment Specialist, UNICEF, Email: scampo@unicef.orgThe mHero platform allows health workers, government authorities, and other key stakeholders to engage in real-time, targeted communication via mobile phone two-way SMS (text messages), interactive voice response, and direct calls in order to rapidly respond to health workers' needs, particularly in emergency situations like the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
- ItemCommunity-Led Total Sanitation Mobile SurveillanceAmy Tiwari, WASH Program Manager, Akros, Email: atiwari@akros.com | Benjamin Winters, Country Director, Akros, Email: bwinters@akros.comA tool that uses DHIS2 software on mobile phones to collect water and sanitation data at the village-level via Community Champions (CC).
- ItemmTrac: Monitoring Essential Medicine SupplySean Blaschke, Child Survival Systems Strengthening Specialist, UNICEF Uganda | Tel: +256-4-1717-1000, email: sblaschke@unicef.orgHealth facility workers SMS government surveillance reports via RapidSMS of real-time data to track drug stocks and disease outbreaks
- ItemMAMA South AfricaBrooke Cutler, Senior Program Manager, MAMA | Tel: +1-202-650-5353, Email: bcutler@mobilemamaalliance.orgEmpowering mothers to adopt healthy behaviors and access MCH services through SMS, Mobi community portal, and USSD-based quizzes
- ItemAponjonDr. Ananya Raihan, CEO, Dnet ananya@dnet.org.bdThe Mobile Alliance Maternal Action (MAMA) program launched nationally in December 2012. A Bangladeshi social enterprise, Dnet, implements Aponjon in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) and with support from the US Agency for International Development. The service is designed for women between 6 and 42 weeks of pregnancy and mothers with a child under one year of age. It features critical health information and reminders based on gestational stage and age of baby in the form of text and voice messages.
- ItemInformed Push Model (IPM)Perle Combary, Acting Project Director, IntraHealth International, Email: pcombary@intrahealth.orgThe Informed Push Model has successfully improved the supply chain and ensured the steady availability of contraceptive products throughout Senegal, using, among other interventions, a mobile LMIS tool.
- ItemText Me! Flash Me! Call me!Dr. Henry Nagai, Chief of Party, USAID/SHARPER project, FHI 360 | Tel: +233-302-740780, +233-244-26666, email: hnagai@fhi360.orgHotline that increases MSM and key population access to and use of confidential HIV/AIDS and other STI information, referrals and counseling
- ItemMOTECH SuiteTim Wood, Director of Innovations in mHealth, Grameen Foundation | Email: twood@grameenfoundation.orgIntegrated scalable, sustainable and readily-deployed applications with interoperable workflows within and across 5 functional health areas