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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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- ItemAccredited Drug Dispensing OutletJafary Liana, Senior Technical Advisor, MSH Tanzania, Email: jliana@msh.orgWorking with MSH and PCT, ITIDO developed mobile applications that link to a web-based database of information on private sector drug outlets’ premises and personnel and which include a mobile payment component for premises and personnel fees, an SMS-based reporting module for outlets to report on standard indicators related to service delivery, and an SMS-based information exchange module, which allows ADDO and pharmacy personnel to send and receive information, for example, on accreditation requirements or drug recalls.
- ItemAirtel Insurance powered by MicroEnsurePeter Gross, Marketing Director, MicroEnsure peter.gross@microensure.comThe Airtel/MicroEnsure partnership aimed to introduce millions of emerging consumers to their first health insurance products by offering simple cover, for free. By introducing consumers to a basic health insurance product, MicroEnsure aimed to establish trust through transparent, reliable operations. It then offered intuitive up-sell products to allow customers to increase their coverage by paying for more cover for themselves and/or their families, which created a path to greater health insurance coverage.
- ItemAirtel Insurance with MicroEnsureSteve Knight, Communications Manager, MicroEnsure, Email: steve.knight@microensure.comMicroEnsure and Airtel launched a joint endeavor by which their customers are able to earn free insurance as long as they spent a minimum amount of airtime. Mobile money transactions transmit cash to patients who spend 3 nights or more in any hospital.
- ItemChangamka Maternal Health SmartcardSam Agutu, CEO and Co-Founder, Changamka | Email: Info@changamka.co.kePre-paid mobile savings card for women to obtain ANC, delivery and PNC services at listed prices in participating maternity facilities
- ItemHeartfile Health FinancingDr. Sania Nishtar, Founder, Heartfile, Email: sania@heartfile.org, Tel: +92-51-8358968Heartfile Financing is an mHealth-enabled fund-based purchasing system which aligns service providers, patients, and donors in order to provide financial assistance to patients with non-communicable diseases.
- ItemHeartfile Health Financing – an mHealth enabled innovation in health social protectionDr. Sania Nishtar, Founder, Heartfile, Tel: +92-51-8358968, Email: sania@heartfile.orgLocal health workers seek urgent support from Heartfile clearing house to provide poor with cash transfers to avoid medical improverishment
- ItemInteractive AlertsSubhash Chandir, Director of Vaccines Program, IRD Pakistan, Email: subhash.chandir@irdresearch.org | Frances Gonzales, Program Associate, mHealth Alliance, Email: fgonzales@mhealthalliance.orgA vaccine registry system that uses SMS reminders to caregivers and conditional cash transfers to care givers and health workers to improve immunization coverage among children in Karachi, Pakistan. To-date more than 14,000 infants have been enrolled in the program and scale-up of the project will target 100,000 additional children.
- ItemJamii Smart | KimMNCHip – referrals, mSavings and eVouchersStefan Germann, Director for Partnerships, Innovation and Accountability, Global Health & Wash Team, World Vision International | Email: Stefan_Germann@wvi.orgNational-scale MNCH initiative through KimMNCHip platform including CHW support, service supply and demand, and mSavings insurance option
- Itemm4Change + mCCTMarion McNabb, Senior Technical Advisor, Pathfinder International, Email: mmcnabb@pathfinder.org; Farouk Jega, Pathfinder Nigeria Country Representative, Pathfinder International, Email: fjega@pathfinder.orgThe m4Change project launched the conditional cash transfer (CCT) scheme in 2014; this system incentivizes mothers to attend maternal health services, as well as tracks patients to ensure continued care is provided.
- ItemmHealth for Safer DeliveriesMarc Mitchell, President, D-tree International, Email: mmitchel@hsph.harvard.eduThe Safer Deliveries program integrates novel mHealth approaches -- decision support, data storage, mobile banking, and communications -- into a community intervention that effectively links the institutional and community levels to overcome barriers to hospital deliveries in Zanzibar.
- ItemmHealth For Safer Deliveries: EZY Pesa Mobile Banking ServiceMarc Mitchell, President, D-tree International, Email: mmitchel@hsph.harvard.edu | Ken Warman, Gates Foundation, Email: ken.warman@gatesfoundation.orgmHealth for Safer Deliveries is a set of services that enables traditional birth attendants (TBAs) and midwives to ensure safe pregnancies and deliveries by identifying obstetric emergencies and utilizing Ezy Pesa to transfer money for obstetric-related transportation.
- ItemMobile Finance to Reimburse Sexual and Reproductive VouchersBoni Ramanantsoa, Information Systems Manager, MSI Madagascar | Tel: +261-(0)-20-22-40304, email: iangotina.ramanantsoa@mariestopes.mgVoucher program's SMS money transfer system to reimburse social franchise service providers for FP services to clients
- ItemThe Mobile Health Research Lab: Mobile WalletCees Hesp, Director Joint Learning, PharmAccess, Email: c.hesp@pharmaccess.orgMobile Wallet is a system that allows users to pay and save funds for healthcare. The application aims to increase health spending and decrease out of pocket costs through risk pooling and digitizing healthcare payments.
- ItemPona Na Tigo BimaRichard Lefty, CEO, MicroEnsure, Email: richard.leftley@microensure.com | Peter Gross, Regional Director Africa, Email: peter.gross@microensure.comA health microinsurance that offers life insurance and hospital cash for hospital care and utilizes mobile-phone based claim payments in Dar es Salaam. Insurance premiums are deducted from the customer's airtime balance and claims are paid via mobile money payments in 3-4 days.
- ItemTanzania National eVoucher SchemeMike Sarco, Senior Consultant/Project Manager, Business of Health, MEDA | Email: msarco@meda.orgMIS web platform that allows clinic workers to issue vouchers for long-lasting insecticide-treated nets, redeemed at nearby retailers
- 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