The Architecture of a Software System for Supporting Community-based Primary Health Care with Mobile Technology: The Mobile Technology for Community Health (MoTeCH) Initiative in Ghana
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THIS PAPER DESCRIBES THE SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE OF A SYSTEM DESIGNED IN RESPONSE TO THE HEALTH DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL OF TWO CONCOMITANT TRENDS IN POOR COUNTRIES: i) The rapid expansion of community health worker deployment, now estimated to involve over a million workers in Africa and Asia, and ii) the global proliferation of mobile technology coverage and use. Known as the Mobile Technology for Community Health (MoTeCH) Initiative, our system adapts and integrates existing software applications for mobile data collection, electronic medical records, and interactive voice response to bridge health information gaps in rural Africa. MoTeCH calculates the upcoming schedule of care for each client and, when care is due, notifies the client and community health workers responsible for that client. MoTeCH also automates the aggregation of health status and health service delivery information for routine reports. The paper concludes with a summary of lessons learned and future system development needs.
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- Authors
- MacLeod, B. B., Phillips, J., Stone, A., Walji, A., & Awoonor-Williams, J. K.
- Affiliations
- University of Southern Maine (US)
- Columbia University (US)
- Grameen Foundation (US)
- Corresponding author
- MacLeod, Bruce Bradford
- ORCID
- Phillips, James
- Venue
- Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Libraries
- Published
- 2012-05-17
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 1947-2579 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3615808
- OpenAlex
- W2118753208
- Cited by
- 52
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 13.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Online Journal of Public Health Informatics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Greater South Information System
- Funders
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › ICT in Developing Communities
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
- Keywords
- software architecture, community-based primary care, community health workers, mobile health, mobile data collection, electronic health records, interactive voice response, health information systems, rural health care, Ghana
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