3.5.2. The Mobile
Technology for Community Health (MoTeCH) Initiative in Ghana
In Ghana, in 2009, Columbia University, the Grameen
Foundation, and the Ghana Health Service launched a program of technology
development and research designed to evaluate the potential uses of mobile
technology in supporting community health operations, known as the Mobile
Technology for Community Health (MoTeCH) Initiative. In the study conducted by
Bruce Macleod and others to describe the software architecture of a system that
is designed in response to the health development potential trend of the rapid
expansion of community health worker deployment and the global proliferation of
mobile technology coverage; and their use in poor countries, the research team
analyzes the problem of the need of high quality and accurate information in
the management of pregnant woman and labor information in the health
administration.The awareness of the young pregnant women in the follow up of
the antenatal and postnatal care has been also analyzed. One of the method they
used to address the issues cited above is the integration of the mobile phone
into the rural health system to bridge key health information gaps. (Macleod,
Phillips, Stone, Walji, & Awoonor-Williams, 2012)
In the solution proposed by the MoTech system, some of the
particular scenariorelated to the use of mobile phone that illustratethe
potentials of mobile health (mHealth) benefits are: the reception of voice
messages in health education by pregnant woman,the collection of patient data
using low cost mobile phone and the reception of a weekly SMS message onwomen
who are delayed for routine schedule care by nurses.(Macleod et al., 2012)
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