Pick healthwith a click

Boom of ICTs Play a critical role in health

care Provide new and more

efficient ways of accessing, communicating, and storing information.

Save time and energy. Provide health facility to the

less priveleged

WHY ICT’s FOR HEALTH?

ICT FOR HEALTH INITIATIVES IN INDIA:

The ANANYA project Mobile kunji Telemedicine MCTS(Mother and Child Tracking System) mHealth HIMS( Health Information Management System) PMSSY (Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha

Yojana)

ananya

ANANYAWhen: May, 2010 Where: BiharBy Whom: Bill And Melinda Gates FoundationObjective:• To create a healthier and

happier Bihar• especially for women and children.

WHAT IS ANANYA? Seeks to reduce maternal,

neonatal & child mortality Reduce malnutrition; fertility

& morbidity from infectious diseases

By innovative and integrated health solutions

Increase the coverage and quality of family health interventions in Bihar

PROJECTS UNDER ANANYA

Integrated Family Health Initiative (IFHI)

Engagement of Private Providers for Infectious Disease Management

Supporting Sustainable Sanitation Improvements

Government-To-Person Health Payments

Shaping Demand and Practices Community Mobilization and

Social Accountability Strengthening Kala Azar

Elimination Project Ananya Measurement, Learning

and Evaluation(MLE) Bihar Evaluation of Social

Franchising and Telemedicine

PROJECTS UNDER ANANYA continued

ACCOMPLISHMENTS•Received the mHealth Alliance Collaboration Award at the mHealth Summit

•Syndicate Bank has launched a program called "Project Ananya" that focuses on improved customer service and offering latest in digital banking services.

Mobile kunji

Mobile Kunji• Means 'guide' or 'key‘

• Brings together : Interactive Voice Response (IVR) based mobile service & a printed deck of cards on a ring

• Cards: look like a mobile phone, with illustrations

•contain key messages about maternal and child health

WHAT IS IT ?• An audio-visual job aid for

community health workers

• Created by Ananya and BBC Media Action.

• Launched in Bihar, Odisha & Uttar Pradesh.

• A deck of 40 cards : hand-in-hand with pre-recorded audio clips by Dr. Anita

• Accessible from-mobile phone

•Card has unique mobile codes printed, corresponding to specific audio health message

•Play the health message – voiced by a character called Dr Anita an: authoritative female doctor

•Accessible by: any mobile phone handset

•Calls to Mobile Kunji are toll free

Features

•Information on early stages of pre and post-natal health care in a compact deck

•Encourage attitude change in the rural people

• Dr. Anita builds trust in the families lacking access to larger professional health care institutions

•Cards act as both a ‘job aid’ & increase confidence

•visual material -facilities verbal communication of the healthcare worker & communicates the content

BENEFITS

telemedicine

Telemedicine•Clinical health care from a distance•Eliminate distance barriers•Provides access to medical services; not available in distant rural communities•Saves lives in critical care and emergency situations•communications b/w patient & medical staff with convenience •transmit medical, imaging& health informatics data from one site to another.•Facilities -telenursing ,telepharmacy, telecardiology , teleradiology etc.•Provide modern health Facilities to the rural people.

Uses ICT to : Provide specialized healthcare

consultation to patients in remote locations

Facilitate video-conferencing among health care experts for better treatment & care

Provide opportunities for continuing education of health care personnel

Objectives

ADVANTAGES•Helpful in rural areas.

•In places short of healthcare providers causing lack of accessibility to basic healthcare & specialty care.

•Provider faster access to healthcare.

•Leads to factor in improved patient engagement & better outcomes.

•Positive outcomes: fewer hospital, faithful following of prescribed courses of treatment etc

•Sharing expertise outside institutions, doctors can offer value to their medical colleagues

•Remote medical technology : effective way to administer preventive medicine & manage chronic conditions

Advantages continued..

CONCLUSION We saw how ICT’s are booming in the field of health and medicine. They not only save time, money and energy but have also Improved

the standards of living in our country, especially the rural areas. Many lives have been saved with the use of these programmes and

initiatives in the area of health. They have increased job opportunities and employment

to a great extent. So let us spread the word and benefits of these ICT’s

so that each one can use them and appreciate the efforts.

referenceswww.ananya.orgwww.wikipedia.comwww.americantelemed.orgwww.msbcindia.org

Thank youRATI MEHRAVINISHA MURPANA3rd sesemsterDepartment of communications & extensions Institute of Home Economics,Delhi university Session- November 2016